Word: letting
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...unbelievable lack of communication and understanding" between the faculty and students. While he says he did not oppose all the students' demands, he "thought they were going about it in the wrong way." Students have become more academically-oriented in the last decade. Bryant observes, but doesn't let the blame rest. "Harvard has traditionally relied on tutorial-like instruction," the professor of Bibliography (a non-teaching position) notes. "Faculty are going to have to spend more time and energy and there will have to be changes," he says...
Corporations like Federated think they can prove themselves responsible to the community by handing thousands to charities--concerned consumers should let them know that continued promotion and sale of Stevens linens belies their claim of being socially conscientious members of our community. Andrew Kahn...
Runners also pull each other through. "Right before the hills, this guy came running up to me and said, 'come on, let's do it together.' We cruised up Heartbreak," a Harvard senior told me. Out of 10,000 runners, I met the same man that I had run with last year, and we commiserated for 20 miles...
...pickups imported last year was taxed at the full truck rate. The 25% levy, introduced by Congress in 1963 in retaliation for a European tax on American chickens, was originally designed to hit imports of the Volkswagen Transporter, which is no longer produced. Successive administrations have let the tariff go unenforced, and this is not likely to change, despite a General Accounting Office estimate that about $600 million in truck import taxes have been lost since 1971. Reason: U.S. automakers are playing the customs game alongside the Japanese...
...legislation for boxing reforms, Sportscaster Howard Cosell paused to pontificate on sports shortcomings. The master of multisyllabicism and monotone was particularly exercised by the overriding "syndrome" that winning is everything. This, harrumphed Howard, was all the fault of sportswriters. "Before we ever televised a game, the press did it. Let's put the blame where it belongs." The only thing wrong with telecasters, as far as the New York University Phi Beta Kappa could see, was that ex-jock commentators on networks other than ABC don't talk too good. They "consider it a monumental task to utter...