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Harvard Square in the thirties compared with its present incarnation resembled a country crossroad. The streetcars still clanged along Massachusetts Avenue, and the newsboys under the shelter of the kiosk leading into the subway sang out the list of newspapers, the Boston Herald, the Boston Globe, the Evening American, the Evening Transcript and the Boston AD-VA-TISA, like an incantation. On the first warm days of spring there would be the usual "spring riots" on the part of high-spirited undergraduates, who threw rolls of toilet paper out the windows of their ancient dormitories in the Yard, or snake...
Tuchman, whose most recent historical work, The March of Folly, is riding high on the best-seller list, said yesterday in a telephone interview. "It's truly a pleasure, delight." Tuchman said she is planning no other activities while at Harvard...
...across like used-car salesmen. If we don't look into this, a Ralph Nader group will." Some educators believe that the growing student practice of "double booking" (paying deposits at more than one school) should be looked into as well. The practice forces colleges to play waiting-list roulette over the summer, not knowing until fall how many of their students will actually show up. To deal with the problem, some institutions have begun to trade lists of matriculants. Students who have double booked may soon be receiving a less welcome kind of attention from their prospective schools...
...Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, known as the CITES treaty. The pact, which took effect in 1975, has 87 signatories. The U.S. has two additional umbrellas: the Endangered Species Act of 1973, which bars the import of animals or plants on an "endangered" or "threatened" list, and the 1900 Lacey Act, which forbids the entry of plants or animals taken illegally out of another country...
Wildlife traffickers often launder items: if a country bans the export of a species, smugglers spirit animals into a nearby nation that permits their export. An official of an accommodating government can be bribed to list his country as the origin of items. Says Paul Gertler, a biologist with the federal wildlife permit office: "Inspectors at ports of entry are put in the position where they have to take the word of another government...