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...disciplining students. The Administrative Board, which Fox chairs, may seem big and had, but before on jumps to conclusions, it's worth realizing that Harvard's disciplinary policies diverge from those of most schools in ways that make the University both more merciful and less prone to public knock-down drag-outs like Napolitano's. Consider the following two aspects of Harvard's approach to punishment...
...question of a possible link between diesel exhaust and cancer guaranteed a long regulatory fight. Harvard's track record on questions like these is spotty; it has invariably sought to do the bare minimum it can to escape state environmental regulations. So rather than immediately getting into a new, knock-down, drag-out fight over technical minutiae. Harvard should ask for a moratorium on proceedings for the hearings. The communities which have successfully fought Harvard would certainly agree...
...result is a knock-down, drag-out success, at least as long as the non-stop beat blasts away on the first side of the disc. In the title track, Gordon's band, the Wildcats, lays down a tight boogie rhythm and Gordon wails the praises of a lively nightclub on the edge of town. No one has heard the likes of his squeal in the choruses since Buddy Holly crooned "Peggy Sue" at the top of his throat...
...last-place Crimson (0-2 Ivy, 2-2 overall) hosts first-place Dartmouth (2-0, 2-2) at 1:30 this afternoon in the Stadium, and if past confrontations mean anything, the 82nd meeting between these clubs will be a knock-down, drag-out affair...
With a must-win situation in each of its last two games and a standing-room-only crowd expected at the Boston Garden, tonight's Beanpot finale against Boston University will be more than the knock-down stick-in-the-face episodes we've come to know over the past decade--if anything more than the intensity of a Harvard-B.U. game is possible...