Word: furnishes
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...both facts and scoops, can be awfully moral about protecting their sources, while in reality being very practical about not shutting off the flow. Journalists usually look to the validity of the information they are offered, and to its verifiability, more than to the motives of those who furnish it. "Everybody-the President and the president of General Motors-has a motive in giving facts to the press," says A.M. Rosenthal, the New York Times's executive editor. For Rosenthal, sources "may be unknown but cannot be unknowable." Only rarely, in deciding how to play a story, does...
...organized student voice, influence or power in how Harvard is run. The implementation of the Core, which was opposed by 65 per cent of the student body, the call from a majority of students to end Harvard's contribution to apartheid, and, most recently, the erection of kiosks, all furnish ample proof of undergraduates' lack of power. In a situation where one side--the faculty and administration--holds all formal power, and the other side--students--holds none, the dominant group is unlikely to yield any of its absolute authority voluntarily. That power is to be taken; it will...
While the traditional rhetoric about how balanced the Ivies are and how many schools have a shot at the crown sounds familiar, this fall promises to furnish an exciting derby down to the last Saturday. The consensus among the league's coaches seems to be that only Penn and Columbia are removed from the thick of things, but that those two squads will both be improved. At this point, no team stands above the rest of the crowd the way Yale did last year--and we all know what happened to Yale last year...
Haverford did not exactly furnish the Crimson with its most formidable opposition of the fall. The season begins for real in less than a week, when the booters take on notoriously pesky MIT next Wednesday, followed three days later by a crucial matchup with eastern power Columbia...
While the traditional rhetoric about how balanced the Ivies are and how many schools have a shot at the crown sounds familiar, this fall promises to furnish an exciting derby down to the last Saturday. The consensus among the league's coaches seems to be that only Penn and Columbia are removed from the thick of things, but that those two squads will both be improved. At this point, no team stands above the rest of the crowd the way Yale did last year--and we all know what happened to Yale last year...