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...told them that their prestige scale has prevented them from exploring some of the most important areas of medicine, and that their colleagues over at the Law School--from which he graduated in 1958--suffer from the same malady. They are, he has charged, "technically excellent" but socially "listless," unresponsive to the needs of the people. He has urged medical students to reject the status scale of the current faculty and to venture into low-prestige areas such as research of accident prevention. From the students he has received an ovation: from most of the faculty, polite applause...
...this afternoon in New Haven, Norton took control of the play after nearly a period of listless, scoreless hockey. The first-team All-Ivy defenseman stickhandled out of her own zone, eluded a trio of Eli defenders and rifled a drive past Yale goalie Betsy Manon to give the Crimson a 1-0 lead...
...night everything went right for the Harvard hockey team. It was the night the Crimson (6-11) escaped from its self-imposed manacles of a listless offense and an immobile defense. With a display of force that had lurked just below the surface all year, the icemen made every one of the failures and disappointments that have spotted this unhappy season vanish into the misty Boston Garden...
Begin himself seemed strangely detached, almost as though he were observing his government's disintegration as a spectator. Reflecting on his listless response to the most important political crisis of his career, an Israeli academic noted: "I've watched three or four Prime Ministers in their decline. Begin used to be a superb parliamentarian and a very effective speaker. The situation today is a very pathetic business." One possible factor was Begin's questionable health. Over the past four years, he has suffered two heart attacks and a stroke, and he is under the constant supervision...
Worse for coach Billy Cleary and his charges, Friday's defensive collapse--in which Cornell poured in five consecutive markers on the way to an 8-5 romp--and Saturday's listless 3-2 loss to Princeton, occurred on home ice. With a five-game road trip looming at the end of the schedule, it's now or never for Harvard to make a bid to get back in contention...