Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea that someone who opposes the very idea of a union should choose who meets with the University to discuss ways to ensure harmony between HUCTW and Harvard is counterintuitive: the worker who opposes the union shouldn't care, and the union doesn't need advice on this matter from those who are not sympathetic to its very existence. Every club, from the Boy Scouts to the Democratic Party, has a rule for making internal decisions: each member, one vote. To stray from that rule would be organizational suicide...
...subject matter of The Mikado remains as pertinent today as a century ago. Crooked politicos and covert dealing abound. Ko-Ko (Steve Mooradian), sentenced to die for flirting, has managed to get himself promoted to the top of the criminal justice system--Lord High Executioner. All other functions of state fall under the aegis of the corrupt, sneering Pooh-Bah (Kenneth Bamberger). The regal Mikado (Anton Quist) makes certain that the "punishment fit the crime"--that ludicrous laws decapitate luckless lovers. Fortunately, palmgreasing and artful seduction prevent anyone from getting hurt...
...time to enter politics arrived in 1986, he reminded very few people of his father and uncles. He was not smooth, not polished and certainly not articulate. Reporters covering the congressional race dubbed him "The Wizard of Uhs," because of his jumbled sentence fragments. But that did not matter because he was a Kennedy, and Kennedys usually win political elections--especially in Massachusetts...
What is most distressing is that the criticisms of Quayle's record came not just from his political opponents or from an academic elite, but also from people like Jay Leno and David Letterman, who hardly received Rhodes scholarships themselves. It isn't just a matter of Ivy League students disparaging people who don't go to college; friends at home, from laborers to the self-employed to college dropouts, claim they sometimes feel inferior and less intelligent because they never received a degree...
...Crimson is having trouble turning its shots into goals. "It's a matter of passing and execution," Lind said. "We're making [the plays], but we aren't finishing them...