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With the 1983-84 season starting tonight at Dartmouth, the Crimson's opening-night foe for the third straight year, the big question is just how far Harvard hockey will fall from last year's best-ever finish...
Fowler's principal foe in the regulatory forest is Colorado Democrat Timothy Wirth, chairman of the House Telecommunications Subcommittee. Wirth contends that Fowler has been far more vigorous in unshackling the brobdingnagians of broadcast row than in stimulating the entry of new entrepreneurs. Fowler's argument that content regulations constitute censorship and violate the First Amendment has one glaring flaw, says Wirth: the Supreme Court has consistently found them constitutional...
After five centuries, scholars still have difficulty coming to terms with the contradictions of a tempestuous man. He was often inexcusably vicious in his writings (he wrote, for instance, that one princely foe was a "fainthearted wretch and fearful sissy" who should "do nothing but stand like a eunuch, that is, a harem guard, in a fool's cap with a fly swatter"). Yet he was kindly in person and so generous to the needy that his wife despaired of balancing the household budget. When the plague struck Wittenberg and others fled, he stayed behind to minister...
...wasn't an Ivy foe, nor was it a perennial power. But the Harvard's men's soccer team yesterday was still concerned; it wanted a victory...
Number-five player Robeita Hing won the hardest fought match of the weekend against her Cavalier foe, losing the first set by a 6-2 count, but gaining her momentum to turn the tables in the second, 6-3. The third set, a 7-5 cliffhanger, was full of games that went to the 3-3 brink, a product of the no-ad rule in collegiate tennis...