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...fiercest debate during the relatively calm meeting was over money--specifically, over who would pay for the biohazards committee that will regulate the experiments. Vellucci said the responsibility lay with Harvard and MIT, and quoted figures of $11,000 to $24,000 a year for the committee's expenses...
...days," muttered a grizzled Zulu elder in Johannesburg's Soweto. Standing in a dusty street one day last week, he recalled with a mixture of admiration and apprehension the legendary days of the 19th century wars against the whites by South Africa's largest and fiercest tribe (see box below). This time, however, the target of the angry Zulus in Soweto was the black militants-the student leaders and other activists who were leading a three-day boycott to prevent Soweto's 250,000-member black labor force from going to work in Johannesburg, 15 miles away...
...then, of course, there's BU. In recent years, the Terriers have evolved into Harvard's fiercest rival. The Crimson downed BU last year in their regular season meeting, but then fell victim to the Terriers in both the Beanpot and ECAC finals. The two teams will meet again on December 10 and in the first round of the Beanpot Tournament. With any luck, they will meet a third time in the ECAC tournament...
...over the previous year. A common strain of complaints issued by those involved with the Philadelphia end of admissions is that the metropolitan area should not be lumped in a region including the prolific Long Island school district, because the grouping heightens the competition for places to its fiercest level in the nation. "But last year we really squawked about it and this year we are higher," Hecksher exclaims proudly...
Although once in as city manager DeGuiglielmo wasn't successful in sustaining his coalition and subsequently lost his council support in the ensuing election, Crane's power remained battered from the ambush by his political friends. Crane told The Crimson in 1966, after losing the fiercest political battle in the city's history: "I don't get shook up over these things, the city won't blow up, the sun won't rise in the west.... I've been through these things before. It's all part of the game." But this time it was all over for the Cambridge...