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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee, which voted to make its debate on the assembly off the record, will decide on further action next week...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Lowell House Committee Votes Not to Hold Assembly Election | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

Even after Mogollan, Keller-Sarmiento and Alberto Villar entered the contest, Harvard still couldn't make the precision passes or find the timing needed to threaten Penn goalie Jim Tabak...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Booters Battle Penn to Scoreless Tie | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

...recruit the Harvard voter for every election. Sullivan's impressive vote total proves the campaigning is worth it, though. Two years from now, halls and entryways should be littered with literature and bustling with candidates, courting student voters for the first time ever. The increase in campaigning will also make the Harvard voter more sophisticated; chances are no one will be able to engineer a win the size of Sullivan's in future elections. "Politicians will have to start paying attention to the demands of students." David Sullivan said as he watched the totals come in from the Harvard precincts...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Counting Change in Cambridge | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

...speak gently and to ask them why they were so unhappy and had they forgotten they were children of God. But a terrible thing had happened. She had wet herself, like a child, all down her legs." Red with shame, she bashes the thief with a brass lamp. To make this moment believable requires the sort of mastery that moved one critic to say Pritchett was the Segovia of the short story. A good many other critics wish they had said it first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Clarity of Mind, a Clarity of Heart | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...battled successfully for her right to a government pension, the Christian burial of Mussolini's remains and the return of many former possessions. She also ran a restaurant-inn for the past 15 years. Said she: "With all the troubles in my life, if I couldn't make a plate of tortellini or bring somebody a glass of wine, I'd have jumped out the window long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 12, 1979 | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

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