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...administrators decided to play Keystone Cops last summer, I'm confident that the same would have been true for the 1985-86 CUE Guide," Ozment said. "Some people decided to fix something that wasn't broke, and in the process, they broke...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Committee Now Favoring Faculty CUE Guide Role | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

When he returns to the neighborhood, most of O'Neill's friends can tell he's been hard at work. "When I fix his shoes he wants a whole new bottom," says cobbler Gimigliano...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: In North Cambridge, He's Just Good 'Ole Tip | 11/4/1985 | See Source »

FACT members say they believe that the Dworkin-MacKinnon bill "is a quick fix to a deep-seated problem," which should be attacked by legislation guaranteeing equal pay scales, affirmative action, and increased bargaining power...

Author: By Laura S. Kohl, | Title: Dworkin Urges Support For Anti-Porn Bill | 10/30/1985 | See Source »

...Pentagon dismissed Aspin's charges as "uninformed and inaccurate," and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger continued to assert that there was nothing basically wrong with the military establishment. "If a thing ain't broke," he has repeatedly argued, "don't fix it." But the Pentagon chief appears on the defensive. In a speech billed as a major exposition of U.S. defense strategy, Weinberger last week offered little more than vague generalities that failed to quiet his critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drums Along the Potomac | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...perhaps even report a peer who has run afoul of the rules. The criticisms ranged from the insipid--that it was nostalgia for his alma mater, honor-bound Princeton that motivated Spence to undertake the study--to the pragmatic--that if the system ain't broke don't fix it--to the serious--no one wants to bust a buddy. Surely, such a cosmopolitan and enlightened a place as Harvard has no use for an anachronism that has traditionally been the hallmark of those preppy colleges nestled in the idyllic Northeast...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: No Honor, No Responsibility | 10/16/1985 | See Source »

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