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Despite the flood of anti-union literature issued by Harvard, despite the anti-union meetings, the administration failed to wield the critical weapons at its command--leaving top officials, supervisors and legal tactics out of the fray...
...passions at Stanford. A battle erupted % two years ago when several faculty members proposed to amend the required freshman reading list of 15 classics in order to include works by minority and female authors. The issue escalated into a national debate when Education Secretary William Bennett jumped into the fray to accuse the reformers of "trashing Plato and Shakespeare." Six weeks ago, in a deft compromise, Stanford's faculty senate voted to pare the required list to six classics plus at least one non-European work chosen by the individual professor with "substantial attention to issues of race, gender...
...give an eerie ring of arrived truth to Charles de Gaulle's imperious prophecy that "every Frenchman was, is or one day will be a Gaullist." Mitterrand, an opponent of De Gaulle for the ten years of the general's presidency, also presented himself as an above-the-fray candidate, rarely mentioning the word Socialist and allowing himself to be described by Socialist Party Chairman Lionel Jospin as a leader who acquired popular support "far beyond the normal limits of his political camp." Chirac, with more ideological claim to the De Gaulle mantle than either of the other candidates...
...when Brown knotted the game at three-all, Hafferty sent Jane Looney into the fray, who responded with two goals in 41 seconds. Then Hafferty sent in Moran, who scored two goals in the span of 1:08, Then Gustilo got two lightning-quick goals 12 seconds apart. Just like that, it was Harvard 9, Brown...
...months, Ronald Reagan has sat in the White House, itching to enter the presidential fray. Finally this week he decided to let a partisan opinion escape his lips, irritated by the media's gentle treatment of Democratic candidate Jesse Jackson...