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...have dubbed the two candidates Loudmouth Lowell and Terrible Toby. Behind the name-calling, two-term incumbent Republican Lowell Weicker, 51, and four-term Democratic Congressman Toby Moffett, 38, are locked in a dead-heat classic of American political theater. Weicker was ambushed recently at a campaign stop by Flip-Flop the Clown, a costumed Moffett staffer seeking to symbolize the incumbent's election-year renunciations of his 1981 votes for the President's budget and tax cuts. Weicker, whose slogan has been "Nobody's Man but Yours," has countered by pushing his image as an unbossed...
...intentional flip side of this admissions coin is that the minority students who do come to Harvard are by and large academically high-powered. "Our population of minorities seems to have gotten here by dint of hard work," says Marlyn M. Lewis '70, assistant dean of the College. Many of these students simply have no desire to play varsity athletics...
...funny-ness as a commentator--she takes Woody with too much desperate seriousness to get any further than a string of "this is hysterical" --but also the delicacy of the task she has taken on. If writing about Woody seemed like a glowing, as-yet-un-snatched opportunity, the flip side is that a talent so multifaceted and subtle as his cannot be helpfully reduced to a series of art-vs.-life and success-vs.-integrity conflicts, or even to a run-of-the-mill Freudian manifestation. Quoting the opening passage of Love and Death("...all men go eventually...
...less cramped in the second half of the Bentley match. Harvard pressured the Bentley net at the outset of the half, but four penalty corners and a Kate Martin near-miss later, the stickwomen were still in a scoreless deadlock. After 14 minutes of anticipation, Jenney Hunnewell managed to flip the ball to White. White weathered a crowd to the left of the Bentley net to tap in Harvard's first tally...
Today, Wacker says, the statistics are exactly the reverse: freshmen are the least common class to seek psychological help, and seniors are the most common. Wacker offers two possible explanations for this flip-flop: the increasing uncertainty of finding a desirable job or place in graduate school on the senior end, and improved secondary-school counseling on the freshman...