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...oddly enough, Kathy may have summed up the Lionel experience best when she said "I always thought of us as pretty typical. Looking past time off, past the inability to communicate and the near fist-fights, past the violent clash of cultures, it may just be that Lionel was somehow "typical"--like the rest of Harvard, only more so. If Harvard is about special people, leaders of their respective communities, people who refuse to follow the beaten path, then Lionel wrote the book on all of those qualities freshman year. If Harvard is about diversity, and people learning from people...
...Tokyo, President Reagan and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone pledged to seek ways to end economic friction, particularly concerning the value of the yen. But little progress was made until the end of March, when Treasury Secretary Donald Regan went to Tokyo and bluntly scolded the Japanese at a fist-thumping news conference...
...Larosière defends the IMF'S often harsh terms as unavoidable. Adjustment measures for some countries, he says, "will necessarily be severe." But it does take a combination of velvet glove and iron fist to keep the world debt situation in control. De Larosière uses the soft approach on the IMF'S 22-man board of executive directors, who must eventually approve all IMF loans. Though they are people of varying views, he manages to compromise and persuade, while holding the trust...
...iron fist is used on private bankers as well as on the developing countries...
...protest the scheduled appearance of Henry Kissinger there, the demonstration organizers scheduled two open-mike sessions to allow different groups the opportunity to express their politics. This was a welcome relief from the way Harvard's campus radicals try to run the political life here--with an iron fist. Dean Wareham '85 for the Spartacus Youth League