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...imagine Soviet designs for global hegemony. It wants to be treated like a superpower but is governed by a self-interest that will induce it to caution in world affairs. What really went wrong with detente in the 1970's was not the unsoundness of the idea but the (mis)calculation by the Soviets that adventurism among nations such as Angola, Ethiopia and Afghanistan outweighed better ties with...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: Treading Lightly | 12/8/1983 | See Source »

...does have a serious image problem as far as Black-white relations on campus go--and the stats, peculiar to Harvard leave less and less doubt of it--then added admissions publicity and recruiting will not help. Indeed, some student minority recruiters have said this year that they have mis-givings about recruiting other minorities in view of the University's response on some minority issues. Comparisons with other Ivy schools which have Third World Centers, the freshman dean's office (FDO) resistance to listing minority events on their official Freshman Week Calendar, a shortage of minority course offerings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Distressing Drop | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...Durbin said, recalling his desperate bout with tennis elbow. But quitting proved unbearable for Durbin. Instead, he applied his knowledge of physics and mathematics, acquired during his 28 years as a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, to produce "The Durbin," a tennis racket aerodynamically designed to compensate for mis-hits and thereby guard against tennis elbow...

Author: By Jon Askin, | Title: Princeton Prof Invents 'Perfect' Racket | 3/3/1983 | See Source »

...Durbin reduces the chances of tennis elbow by reducing the vibrations traveling up the arm as the racket meets the ball," he said, adding that the racket is more efficient than conventional rackets and improves control because players can find the sweetspot more easily. Durbin hopes to prevent mis-hits, a major cause and aggravator of his own ailment, tennis elbow...

Author: By Jon Askin, | Title: Princeton Prof Invents 'Perfect' Racket | 3/3/1983 | See Source »

Even the star-studded cast of voices and the original music and lyrics of Jimmy Webb can't maintain a patchy plot. Hearing Mis Farrow as the Unicorn. Alan Arkin as Schmedrick, and Jeff Bridges as Prince Lir if anything detracts further from the movie's fluidity; their professional voices are too trained and rhythmic to be convincingly dubbed onto cartoons...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: An Inanimate Fantasy | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

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