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Several Harvard students have formed a committee to oppose the construction of a gymnasium on Kent State University's Blanket Hill, where four students were shot and killed by National Guardsmen during an antiwar protest...

Author: By Marc E. Raven, | Title: Group Opposes Kent State Gym | 10/25/1977 | See Source »

Fourteen minutes later it was bedlam as Diaz slipped Harvard's third goal into the left corner assisted by Villar. Villar snared a loose ball in close, beat Dartmouth's Kent Pierce and fed Diaz in the crease...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Crimson Stuns Top-Rated Dartmouth... | 10/15/1977 | See Source »

Back in Ohio, Benninger used to watch Kent State football practices and he remembers "All they used to do is block straight ahead day after day. Here at Harvard I was learning things from the time I was a sophomore to when I was a senior...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Mike Benninger: | 10/7/1977 | See Source »

...general, mellifluous names tend to have passive or negative meanings, and the macho names tend to sound like sharp, short yelps (Bart, Kent, Mac, Matt, Bill, Nate). Despite Bogart, Humphrey retains its depressing image ("terribly unpopular, sedentary"), but Sophia Loren has influenced her first name, which now means "a bombshell." Gina, Brian and Douglas are among the most dynamic and positive names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The Name Game | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...notion that "the king can do no wrong," and was pronounced in the U.S. as a "general proposition" by Chief Justice John Marshall in 1821. In recent terms, sovereign immunity has meant that some victims of negligent state hospital officials or wild-shooting Guardsmen and state police (as at Kent State and Jackson State universities in 1970) have no recourse except to sue the individual government employees at fault. Over the past 40 years, 38 states and the Federal Government have abolished or modified the doctrine, allowing citizens to haul various governments into court as they would a private party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Suing City Hall | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

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