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...Queens and Massachusetts-both Eastern opponents-dropped Harvard into the bottom half of the draw. Thus instead of facing a weaker first-round opponent such as MIT or Boston College, Harvard was pitted against an always strong Brown team. As a result, for two years straight, the Bears have kept the Crimson out of the Eastern championship...
...earliest days as dean of students at Princeton, Harvard's President Neil L. Rudenstine has been known more for his powers of collegial persuasion than for shows of forceful leadership. * But in his first interview of the academic year just three weeks ago, the behind-the-scenes President kept his charm while also speaking in new terms about his "broad agenda" for the coming years and his "vision" for Harvard and its central administration. * Administration sources already said that with Rudenstine about to enter his seventh year at Harvard and the end of the capital campaign not too far away...
...weeks following the injury, Skelton wore a knee brace that kept his knee straight. He stopped using crutches, which were intended for a week, after only five days...
...well-kept garden apartment in East Orange, N.J., is home to a woman who shook hands with the Queen of England at Centre Court in Wimbledon, a woman who was a queen herself, the reigning tennis champion twice in a row at Wimbledon and at the U.S. Open. But Althea Gibson has vanished from sight...
...stage of development where multiparty democracy is possible or successful; it is still a preindustrial society that does not have enough of the well-off, well-educated middle class upon which Western democracy rests, so parties form along tribal, sectarian lines. Those are the divisions that have kept Uganda in a state of chaos for centuries, so multiparty elections "are not our concern," he says; modernization of the economy is. "That is what builds the middle class," says Museveni. "When you have that, the politics will eventually follow." While Museveni may be a gentler leader than his predecessors, critics...