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...Briton's endearing assumption that gentlemen do not tap each other's telephones is, naturally, the despair of merchants like Mr. X, who sells all sorts of bugging gadgets to overseas clients. "I find it horrifying," he says, "that we are in the Common Market with the Germans, the French and the Italians, who know all about this equipment and don't feel too many moral qualms about using it." There are probably no more than 20 British companies, he laments, that even bother to "sweep" their board rooms for bugs that have been planted by their...
...walked past Whangpoo Park, which until 1928 bore the sign, NO DOGS OR CHINESE ALLOWED. The main part of Chung Shan Road pulsates with exercisers: sword dancers, slow-motion shadowboxers practicing the ancient art of tai chi chuan, joggers, tumblers, wrestlers and a few elderly gentlemen who simply lean against a tree and let one leg swing free. The skilled performers draw a great collar of spectators around them. Study the faces. They are the young men and women of the new China, calm, well fed, drably dressed and always surprised at the sight of a foreigner. Only...
...first, and most immediate correction must be made in the area of commitment. There is no possible way that an Ivy League school can maintain a "big-time" basketball program. Gentlemen, let us not kid ourselves into believing that intercollegiate basketball is an amateur event. It is strictly professional in all respects. It demands that a school cater to a superior athlete by giving him a comfortable college career financially, and an easy career academically. I am not saying that Harvard has done this in the past, but what I am saying, is that if Harvard wishes to keep...
...next and final area I would like to see remodeled concerns recruiting. I would like to stress that no longer does the rationalization exist that a Harvard education/degree is worth four years of structured misery. Yes gentlemen, it is a misery to a devoted athlete, professionally talented, to come to Harvard expecting what he was told by zealous alumni to be true (that Harvard has a great basketball program) only to find it a myth. To him, a Harvard degree means giving up his life-long, first love, of basketball, and as I have stated before, an athlete should never...
...Gentlemen, the basketball program must be changed for too many people have suffered too much pain for far too long a time. No basketball program at all would be better than the one you are offering your students today. Matthew J. Bozek '72/3...