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Buoyed by what he calls the "best recruiting year in the Ivy League," coach Frank McLaughlin heads into his fifth year at the Harvard helm with something he never had before: height--and plenty...
...English fashion, elections were held in the open on the Common. One such electoral contest featured Winthrop and an opponent named Vane, squaring off for the title of chief magistrate. "The adherents," a chronicler reports, "gathered in force and excitement ran high so violence was feared. At the height of the tumult, the Rev. John Wilson, pastor of the Boston Church, despite his 49 years and large bulk, climbed into the old oak and from his point of vantage addressed the people to such good purpose that quiet was restored and the election proceeded." Winthrop...
Precisely what the change meant for the country, and for the victory the workers believed they had won, remained to be seen. There were those, understandably, who did not take much comfort in Kama's background. But there were also those who recalled that at the height of the strikes Kania had been quoted as telling the Gdansk party organization that it was a time "for a political solution-not for force." The only thing that could be reasonably certain, given the risky experiments the country and the workers had embarked upon, was that Kania was surely...
...three weeks in the height of the summer, they go back to school--the deputy administrators, commissioners, city managers, project coordinators and executive directors...
Public Trials Journalists have long charged that the Burger Court has been progressively cutting down the guarantees of freedom of the press, and their indignation reached a height a year ago, when the court ruled that judges could close some pretrial hearings to press and public. The Justices reasoned that the Sixth Amendment right to a public criminal trial could be waived by a defendant and could not then be invoked by the press. That line of argument obviously seemed to imply that judges could close not only hearings but also actual criminal trials if a defendant agreed. Indeed, only...