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...entire exercise is one that leaves me very cold indeed," President Bok said yesterday. "It seems to me to reflect primarily the commercial orientation of college sports that I think has been a source of considerable harm to what institutions of higher education are trying to accomplish...
...even the remote possibility of harm to the President and top Administration figures has prompted new security measures. The FBI is working with the CIA, customs officers and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to increase surveillance along the U.S.-Canadian border for possible infiltrators. Says Ray Hagerty, a regional Customs Service director: "We have stepped up our watch." But an FBI official in Detroit, where more than a million people a month cross from Canada, cautions that reports of heightened vigilance along the border should not be blown out of proportion. Says he: "There is no massing of agents along...
...relationships among Square concessions often comes closer to family feeling than competition. Stores and restaurants like Brigham's and Mug'n Muffin--which Higgins feels "complement" rather than harm his business--send him emergency messengers when they run out of supplies. When Brigham's needs milk in midafternoon, Higgins shrugs and sells a harried employee all he can spare, about 45 half-gallon cartons. "In ten minutes someone will come in and be bummed out because there's no cream," he predicts, "but what...
...point, in her blithe confidence that printing all the truth about absolutely everything can do no harm, Megan (who sometimes is made to appear a tad too naive to be believed) causes an unbalanced young woman whom Michael has tried to protect to commit suicide. In that tragedy's aftermath, he says to the reporter: "Couldn't you just see her? Couldn't you stop scribbling, put down your goddam ballpoint and see her?" It is a question all journalists should put to themselves frequently, and we are in this film's debt for raising...
...Moynihan of New York, who has been a leading proponent of tuition tax credits. criticized the plan as a "caricature" because of the large sums involved. President Reagan favors the tuition tax credits, and conservatives had hoped that a win would put to rest fears that the scheme would harm minority students most...