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Harvard College must place more emphasis on recreational facilities. Until they do, I invite all MAC and QRAC ballplayers to join me in boycotting any B-School interlopers. If you do let them play, be sure to beat 'em big. Eli Karsh '91 Tom J. Hoover...
...there is a set of numbers that may deserve to be taken seriously. Joel Hay, a health economist for the Hoover Institution at Stanford, has used a statistical tool called "back calculation" to analyze data on AIDS infections. His surprising conclusion: about 640,000 Americans carry the virus. If he is right, the epidemic, while still devastating, may be only half as widespread as generally believed...
During the mid-1980s, Rather showed gripping scenes of battling troops and suffering civilians, most photographed by freelance cameraman Mike Hoover, 45. The images won CBS an award for news coverage. But the New York Post, citing sources in the U.S., Europe and Asia, said some scenes were fabricated. CBS officials said they believed the film was authentic but were looking into the charges. Among the Post's allegations...
...broadcasts in November 1984, Rather introduced videotape purporting to show mujahedin rebels blowing up electric-power pylons in the "largest sabotage operation of the war." According to the Post, a former Afghan rebel named Etabari, who was Hoover's translator, said the photographer arrived twelve days after the event and persuaded rebels to restage the incident...
...Another segment supposedly showed rebels stalking government guards and blowing up a mine. The Post says Etabari claims the footage was faked by Hoover at a camp in Pakistan. The Post adds that CBS in 1987 aired a tape of an exploding red toy and described it as a bomb planted by Soviet soldiers. An unidentified BBC producer called the "bomb" a phony device made for Hoover. Whatever the truth of these allegations, they are a reminder that skepticism is an editor's best -- and perhaps most reliable -- friend...