Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lest anyone forget, the book's title is drawn from the fight song "Harvardiana," a ditty by Raymond G. Williams...
Born in West Virginia, the 42-year-old lawman drove a tractor trailer for 17 years. He also had a country-music band in which his wife Gayle Lynne played bass. One night he watched a man get shot during a fight in front of the grandstand, and he "stopped raisin' hell" and turned to police work. Gayle Lynne said, "What're you gonna do? Save the world?" And he said, "No. If I can just save one person, it'll be worth it." He also gave up drinking and kicked his cigar habit...
...talent got a bit testy last week. Rivers bragged that her ratings as Tonight's host are higher than Carson's (actually, they are slightly lower when his reruns are factored out) and claimed that she had to fight to get offbeat guests like Boy George on the show. "I always felt I was a stepchild at NBC," she said. "In all the time I was there, I never met (Chairman) Grant Tinker." Carson, through a spokesman, said he was miffed that Rivers had negotiated a deal behind his back. NBC, meanwhile, pointed out that Rivers is joining a lengthy...
Elliott Abrams '69 argued that there is no alternative to supporting the Nicaraguan Contras in their fight to overthrow the Sandinista government "unless you suggest that it's okay to have a communist country in Central America subverting its neighbors...
...country for more than 70 years. That victory inspired many activists to push even harder for the complete dismantling of the apartheid system. In Washington, the Rev. Leon Sullivan, whose well-known guidelines for U.S. corporate conduct in South Africa have encouraged companies to remain in the country and fight apartheid from within, has urged corporations to push even harder. Said Sullivan: "Our signatories have to do more to support the rights of blacks to work where they want, to integrate neighborhoods, to establish common amenities...