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...Another mainstay in Harvard politics is the annoying extensive coverage of a big campus issue which always involves just a minute fraction of the Harvard population but in which everybody and their mother needs to be involved. Last year (although it's been around this year as well), campus politics centered around the Core Curriculum. Students complained, professors complained and even administrators complained. But after everything the Core is still the same stupid and unfulfilling academic requirement. This year the futile debatable issue was the randomization process. Even after everyone stopped whining it still happened. First-years were randomized even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Fond Look Back | 5/10/1996 | See Source »

...teenagers and twenty-somethings who form the mainstay of the customers of music retailers are willing to go to several stores to compare prices and get the cheapest deal, Smith said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Chains Drive Out Discount Records | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...definitely say that last month's budget impasse was third-railed. Clinton recently reprimanded his top political adviser, Dick Morris, about the disclosure of polling data to the Dole campaign. Based on confidential figures and estimates, Morris sent a message advising Dole to support Clinton's mainstay, a seven-year balanced budget deal including a capital gains cut and a $500-per-child tax credit...

Author: By E. CHARLES Mallett jr., | Title: Get Back on Track | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

...although he did play last night, Nielsen was definitely in pain and not at 100 percent. McLaughlin, despite being one of the main power-play defensemen, has acted as the mainstay on this squad. By sitting out for the Beanpot semi-final game, McLaughlin ended his streak of 114 consecutive appearances...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: Looking For Luck | 2/6/1996 | See Source »

...From users, who complain that some of Microsoft's mainstay products, like the latest version of Word for the Mac, have become bloated and sluggish, and that the company's first attempt to create a more "social" kind of software (the much ballyhooed Bob) was too condescending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BILL GATES: MINE, ALL MINE | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

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