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Parietal rules applied to student groups as well as dormitories. In mixed organizations such as the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO), there were special hours during which women were allowed to work in the group offices. The Student Activities Center was open from only 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. for women, and even organizations like WHRB, The Crimson and the Hasty Pudding Club had parietal hours...
...Dunster House Committee was among the first to protest vehemently against the considered changes in rules. Along with Thomas Seymour '64, president of the Harvard Council of Undergraduate Affairs (HCUA), the House Committee proposed a study of sexual practices at Harvard and organized a group to conduct the study and consider working to abolish parietals altogether. John Purvis '64 of the Dunster House Committee said then that, "it would be unfortunate if the privilege of entertaining a date in a natural setting were taken away because of vague suspicions...
...part, such wrangling reflects industry uneasiness over the proposed merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc., which will create a strengthened No. 2 cable-systems operator, behind Denver-based Tele- Communications. "The burning issue right now is how much access the Time- Warner group will give to its competition," says an executive of a rival cable company. According to a study by Michael Salinger, a professor of public policy at the Columbia University business school, system operators may indeed show bias toward their own networks over channels owned by other companies. Says he: "I found that ATC systems tend...
Under deregulation, the rates that cable subscribers pay for basic service and rates for premium programs have moved in opposite directions. Paul Kagan Associates, a California-based research group and trade-magazine publisher, found that the average monthly charge for basic service climbed from $11.90 in 1986 to $14.40 last year, an increase of 21%. At the same time, the typical fee for premium offerings such as HBO and Showtime fell from $10.31 a month to $9.91, down nearly...
Hammadi, who is linked to the radical pro-Iranian group Hizballah, was arrested in January 1987 while trying to smuggle explosives through Frankfurt airport. West Germany denied a U.S. extradition request after Hammadi backers kidnaped two German businessmen in Lebanon, prompting criticism that Bonn was knuckling under to blackmail. Hammadi could have faced the death penalty in the U.S., not an option in Germany. Said Stethem's father Richard: Hammadi "deserves punishment more severe than allowable under German...