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With her athletic skills and her influence as a leader, Hayes has turned both the basketball and softball squads into bona fide contenders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sharon Hayes | 1/17/1986 | See Source »

...about Harvard as an institution than it does about the specific issue at hand. Every informed person seems reasonably sure that the decision stemmed from a desire to avoid demonstrations or other "unpleasantries" directed against President Reagan, the most likely honorary recipient. If true, this is certainly a bona fide reason for the decision; no one wants Harvard to look stupid on national television. But why did the Corporation fear such disruption in the first place...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Hiding Behind Veritas | 10/16/1985 | See Source »

After Howard failed a routine lie detector test, the posting was canceled, and he was fired by the agency. Howard returned to his native New Mexico and became a bona fide economic analyst for the state legislative finance committee. After Yurchenko began identifying KGB "assets" in the U.S. during a lengthy debriefing, the FBI started a thorough background check on Howard, including interviews with co-workers and neighbors. Howard was last seen at his office on Sept. 21, a Saturday. The next day his supervisor found a letter announcing his resignation for "personal reasons." It is assumed that Howard fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spy Slipup: A suspect vanishes | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...that has broad implications for older workers in many occupations, the U.S. Supreme Court last week upheld the claim of Criswell and the others, ruling unanimously that employers must meet a stringent legal standard before they can institute blanket retirement rules. Being younger than 60 is not a "bona fide occupational qualification," wrote Justice John Paul Stevens, unless it can be shown that all flight engineers over that age present a safety risk or that it is "highly impractical" to make individual judgments about their health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cockpit Gray: A broad ruling on age bias | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...students, the Miami Dolphins, of Gos Ec majors with four exams and two papers due. January was a good month, however, for anyone who had been waiting for an intellectual apologia for cross-dressing as a cultural phenomenon. Androgvny has ostensibly moved from a more fashion had to bona-fide sociological thanks to endorsement, by two Harvard-linked journalist organs: Harvard Magazine and The New Republic...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sennef, | Title: The Androgyny Myth | 2/9/1985 | See Source »

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