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They exist, both inside and outside what they call the University proper and they're there because, contrary to what President Bok has told us in a series of "Open Letters" he has written in the last two years, the University is not above the fray. Every day, people representing Harvard are planning to buy an apartment building and evict the tenants who've lived there for eight or ten years or investing in companies that will report 200 per cent profits in the third quarter...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: The Business of Harvard | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

That left Washington Senator Henry Jackson as the only potential candidate who seemed ready to jump into the fray. Carter's strategists, however, profess to have no fear of Jackson because they are certain that he does not have enough national, congressional or party support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter Battles A Revolt | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

...every four years, when the Crimson gridders take on their Big Green foes in Cambridge, a horde of fans descends on campus from the "Live Free or Die" state--and usually manage to reach remarkable heights of obnoxiousness during their short stay. While some Harvard undergraduates enter the fray, many know the best strategy for the Dartmouth weekend is to remain indoors, lest they be tagged by an errant beer bottle...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Big Green Totemism and Other August Oddities | 8/5/1980 | See Source »

...actor may rally his soldiers ("Once more unto the breach, dear friends"), but he will not be supremely successful in the part unless he makes the audience burn to join the fray. Jack Wetherall, in the title role in this play, lacks that incendiary magnetism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Marathon Time at Stratford | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

...office stayed on the sidelines (except for a plea from chief lobbyist Roger Moore before the committee that reviewed the bill), but opposition still surfaced. Delays snagged the bill all along the line until, in the mad rush that annually preceeds adjournment, the bill turned up again in the fray. Someone in the governor's office--speculation centered on legislative aide and Harvard alumnus Neil Lynch-- managed to get the bill returned to the floor of the senate. Only appeals from old King friends, City Manager James L. Sullivan, State Sen. Michael LoPresti, and a host of other local officials...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: On Shaky Ground | 7/11/1980 | See Source »

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