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...Since I got in I've been given a 'Harvard--the Michigan of the East' shirt and a 'Harvard--the Vanderbilt of the North t-shirt," the Highland Park native says...
...former editor of the Highland Park High School literary magazine says he is looking forward to taking a variety of courses and skipping down to New York City for a weekend...
...whom are registered in neither party. The vote worked to their advantage in 1982, when Democrats--again with the exception of Silvio Conte--won every congressional race, the gubernatorial race, and the Senate race, with at least 58 percent of the vote. Rep. Barney M. Frank '62 (D-Newton Highland) swamped his Republican opponent Margaret M. Heckler, now secretary of Health and Human Services in the Reagan Administration, by a three-to-two margin in what had been expected to be a tight race...
Nervous, but not scared, or hiding anything. Conventioneers will be offered a three-hour tour ranging from preppy Southern Methodist University to single-family ghetto homes, from the J.F.K. assassination site to the astonishing wealth of Turtle Creek. They will see Highland Park, just a nine iron away from the Dallas Country Club, the area's most exclusive. In Highland Park Village, even the Safeway is disguised as a hacienda. Throughout the town, in the rich north and the poor south, the visitor will notice crape myrtle in full, riotous bloom-the only living thing that seems to enjoy...
They developed clan loyalties like those of Highland Scotland, complete with tales of heroism and treachery. The legacy of the Crusades even now is reflected in the snipings, kidnapings and crossfire that recur in the mountains between Christian and Muslim militias. Part of this legacy is a penchant for violence, a belief that the gun as much as the cross is a source of salvation. Says Professor Majid Fakhri of the American University of Beirut: "There is something very medieval about the Christian outlook. A type of feudalism exists in which politics and religion are intertwined in a literal...