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Admitted with non-resident status over the summer, transfers are not guaranteed housing under the current system, but are put on a waiting list until "space becomes available." Not realizing how, crowded the situation is, most transfers justifiably assume that they will eventually move on campus and enjoy late-night place parties with the rest of Harvard's undergraduates. They get this impression from their interviews and in communication with the University over the summer...
...freshman class has 30 bodies more than the administration projected, making next year's situation even worse. The University will have a hard enough time housing next year's freshman class, much less the 60 extra transfers. The new priority assigned transfers two years ago--second in the list, just behind students returning after a one-year absence with all their paperwork in order--thus means very litle...
...pieces of shrapnel in his body as the legacy of a political bombing in 1971, Salonga has denied any intention of running in the next presidential election, due in 1987, unless he is drafted. Still, his modesty is usually discounted and his name included on the increasingly crowded list of would-be candidates...
...sure, the U.S. has some economic worries that could cloud Wall Street's prospects. Leading the list are the twin menaces, huge budget and trade deficits. The trade gap weakens the U.S. economy by diverting American dollars abroad, and the enormous borrowing needed to finance the budget shortfall threatens to push interest rates higher and stunt growth. Says Hugh Johnson, a portfolio strategist for First Albany, a securities brokerage firm: "People went to sleep about the deficit, but they will probably wake up to it this year." Johnson is also skeptical of the current wave of bullish sentiment: "When...
...Gershwin and Aaron Copland. Unfortunately, though, the bonhomie is only intermittent. Despite delightful incongruities, like a six-note boogie-woogie that unexpectedly breaks out of some dense noodling, too often the piece is aimless and unfocused when it should be straightforwardly celebratory. At 30, Picker has compiled an impressive list of awards and commissions and has written other large-scale works, including a symphony and a violin concerto. What he needs to do now is fix more surely his own point of view...