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Intensive design review "benefits everyone by exposing everyone's concerns as early as possible instead of waiting for public hearings, saying to residents, 'Here it is,' and then fighting tooth and nail until the last minute after they say, 'No, we don't like it,' "Reynolds explained...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Harvard Stops Huffing and Puffing | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...They are squealing like they're sitting on a sharp nail simply because we now are showing the will that we are not going to let them get to the point of dominance where they can someday issue to the free world an ultimatum of 'Surrender or die.' " Reagan added that some of those "who under the name of pacifism in Western Europe" are opposing the decision "are really carrying the propaganda ball for the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armaments: Risking Political Fallout | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

Archie Bunker's niece will soon have a new television role. Danielle Brisebois, 12, who plays the pixieish Stephanie on the CBS show Archie Bunker's Place, will star in commercials touting the Tinkerbell line of powders, perfumes, lip gloss, nail polish and other beauty aids for girls ages three to 14. This is the latest marketing ploy in the $100 million-a-year world of kiddie cosmetics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling Make-Believe Makeup | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...What are the economic consequences of exceeding the 25% figure? Since we are obliged to provide access in any event, and, if we renovate baths and kitchens, we are probably obliged to create three accessible apartments and given that the Board does not try to nail us for two elevators, then we may already have bought most of the items which could reasonably be required under full compliance. I would not care to be quoted on this until I have had the opportunity of going over the plans in a meeting with the Board and until the cost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wheelchair-Ramp Blues | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...what does a Radcliffe Joan of Arc do till the day of her martyrdom? There are no prison walls on which she can mark the passing days with a bent nail; only the Harvard Coop Calendar. There is not high, slit-like window through which the sun can halo her as she sits in her cell; only the noise and clatter of Briggs Hall. There are no guards to whom she can confide her visions...

Author: By Carol G. Becker, | Title: Growing Up Innocent in a Quiet Age | 6/2/1981 | See Source »

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