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Sophomore point guard Barbarann Keffer was one of five players selected yesterday to the first team All-Ivy squad for the 1985-'86 season, becoming the first player in Harvard women's basketball history to receive that honor...
...most dazzling success enjoyed to date by Schwab, Cahill and their colleagues is the resolution of a controversy involving the first book printed with movable metallic type. Most experts have awarded that honor to Gutenberg's two-volume, 1,282-page Bible, printed some-time between 1450 and 1455 with 42 lines of type a page. But doubts remained because of two cruder works of the mid-1400s: a rare 36-line Bible and a scrap of paper known as the Sibyllenbuch fragment, also printed in 36-line type. The question that has nagged scholars for years is whether these...
...many of the women, designer dresses. The formality was appropriate for a presidential inauguration--even one called at short notice. But the dignitaries and affluent friends assembled at the Club Filipino in the Manila suburb of Greenhills merely formed a splendid backdrop for the more modestly attired guest of honor. Clad in a simple yellow dress, Corazon ("Cory") Aquino, 53, could hardly have imagined this moment three months ago, when her improbable quest for the Philippine presidency began. Her voice was calm and steady as she recited the presidential oath, her hand resting on a leather-bound Bible...
...little danger of that, however. In a speech last month before the joint Philippine and foreign Chambers of Commerce, Aquino promised that she would consult other nations in the region and "especially" the Filipino people before signing any new treaty. Since then, she has repeatedly maintained that she would honor the present agreement until it expires in 1991, and between now and then keep her options open. As the campaign progressed, Aquino scored points in Washington, first for showing savvy and resilience on the stump, then, after the National Assembly declared Marcos the election winner, for keeping her + followers under...
...prefer the grain to the vote?" Astonishing that democracy ever prevails, the unwieldy comic hero of stage and screen. The Philippines offered astonishment. Somewhere in people's minds, among the vacillations and flaccidities, an insistent voice resides, murmuring the old familiar lines: Everyone counts. Everyone is responsible for the honor of his life. Try not to forget what you saw last week. It was ourselves in eruption far away...