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What can be done? Two alternatives at least suggest themselves: one is to eliminate our Saturday night games, or, if that can't be done, insist that our opponents play on Friday and Saturday as well. Otherwise, we don't play. That may be a tough stand to take, but better that than this cruel fiasco of asking our players to go in there and be humiliated seven years out of eight...
Generations of Harvard men and women may come, and generations of them may go, but one fact remains constant: admissions officers insist there is no such thing as a "typical Harvard student...
Administrators at some pilot schools admit that the lure of free equipment influenced their decisions to air the program. But other officials insist that they chose Channel One primarily on its merits. "Some people assume we're mindless dolts and victims of rampant commercialism," says Thomas Sharkey, principal of Billerica Memorial High School in Billerica, Mass. "I consider this the best form of corporate-school partnership." David Bennett, superintendent of the St. Paul school district, cites lack of public funds as ; a key reason why schools would accept the offer...
...said fine, but next year when we start fresh, we're going to upset the applecart, and we're going to insist on Cambridge's inclusion," Barrett said...
...Wavers insist that this flexibility has all but abolished the traditional business cycle. While they acknowledge that slumps can still strike certain weak industries, they regard broad downturns as largely a thing of the past. Says Edward Yardeni, chief economist for Prudential-Bache Securities: "The economy is now so huge, so diverse and resilient that adjustments take place that prevent economy-wide recessions...