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...equipped with three dart boards and a mini-basketball game, is popular among Harvard students and Cambridge locals. Manager Goodman says while Harvard graduate and undergraduate students make up a substantial portion of their business, more than 50 percent of the business is based elsewhere...
...tons. At the Pentagon, employees looking out over the parking lot can watch paper they've carefully segregated in the office being tossed into a single Dumpster, destined for an incinerator. The used-glass market has been so soft that Waste Management of Seattle, Inc. is stuck with a mini-mountain of 6,000 tons of bottles from neighborhood collections. In the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, haulers have run out of storage space and are incinerating some recyclable goods. "It's like having your suitcase all packed with no place to go," laments Amy Perry, solid-waste program director...
Once the political chaff is dusted away, the mini-debate over Bosnia is instructive. Both Bush and Clinton were saying the same thing. What Marlin Fitzwater called "reckless" -- Clinton's suggestion that the U.S. seek U.N. authorization for selective bombing to safeguard the relief of Sarajevo -- virtually repeated the prescriptions of Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. Clinton barely overstepped the cautious line the Bush Administration has been following...
...cinema verite filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker (Monterey Pop) took his camera into the studio to document the recording of Company, the witty, brittle musical that established Stephen Sondheim as Broadway's premier lyricist-composer. Pennebaker fashioned the joy and angst of the 18 1/2-hr. endeavor into a thrilling mini-musical in itself. Virtually unseen for two decades, the film is now available on video (RCA Victor). High points: Dean Jones earnestly attacking Being Alive, Elaine Stritch agonizing through The Ladies Who Lunch. As a good show should, the 53-min. video leaves its audience craving more...
...many, the summer school experience is considered a sort of farm-team for the first-year class--or at least, a sampler of the Harvard experience, like the tiny promotional cereal boxes and soaps that occasionally turn up in the mail. The mini-Harvard of the summer is a play-ground version of the real thing, which high school students can explore, consider and accept--or reject...