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Alarms over these fiber-poor diets began sounding almost a decade ago. In 1969, Surgeon-Captain Thomas Cleave of Britain's Royal Navy wrote a scathing indictment blaming the increased consumption of sugar and other refined carbohydrates (like bleached flour) for a host of diseases, from diabetes and diverticulosis...
From this vantage point, Angell is able to avoid the squabbles that occupy the time of most daily sportswriters, such as the one that flared this year in New York over the early disintegration of the Mets. Some of the star players were unhappy because they felt the tight-fisted...
Yet even the failure of the committee to reflect student interest cannot justify the ruthless manner in which a group of wealthy alumni subsequently chose to override the committee's wishes. When it became known that the committee planned to select Robert Peck, athletic director at Williams College, several big...
What any committee invented to Study the Problem will doubtless discover first is that as far as race relations at Harvard go, there are precious few. Minorities and whites in the main don't see each other as individuals but as Representatives of a Position or Metaphors of the Moral...
Item #4: Hockey goalies, coach reach boiling point: Reserve varsity netminders Jack Hynes and Brian Murphy are now in Coach Billy Cleary's doghouse. The two freshmen got involved in a rattail flicking, tape-throwing donnybrook in the locker room the other day. The fracas represented a culmination of the...