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...additions: Jason Forte, G, 6-0, 170; Nathan Eads, F/C, 6-8, 190; G. J. King...
...last day in the CIA, agent Nathan Muir (Robert Redford) recounts the story of Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt), whom he recruited and mentored. Bishop is about to be executed for a rogue raid on a Chinese prison, and Muir wants to rescue him. The excess of talk, some of it nicely smart-alecky, is relieved by much standard action-movie fieldwork: explosions, car chases, muttering. Though the film ranges the world and the decades in search of coherence and consequence, it finds none...
...team placed fourth at NCAA regionals despite a disappointing fifth place at Heps—optimism is high among the distance runners. Cross-country captain John Friedman, who placed fifth in the 5000 at Heps last year, will contend in that event again this year, as will junior Nathan Shank-Boright, who took fifth at cross-country Heptagonals last month. Haggerty also expects that junior Matthew Seidel, who placed eighth at cross-country Heps, will surprise people in the 3000. Junior John Traugott will contend for the title in the 1000 to follow up a second-place finish...
...DIED. NATHAN PUSEY, 94, president of Harvard who saw the university through the expansionist 1950s and '60s; in New York City. The Iowa-born Harvard alum created "need-blind" admissions and oversaw the near tripling of its administrative and teaching staff--including many women. He came under fire in 1969, when he called in police to oust from a campus building protesters from the radical Students for a Democratic Society. Pusey announced his retirement the next year...
During his 18-year tenure as president of the University, Nathan M. Pusey ’28 presided over sweeping changes at Harvard. Today, students are likely to cite the University Hall takeover in 1969 as the most memorable event of Pusey’s administration. But Pusey deserves to be remembered for his extended, distinguished service to the University. Pusey transformed the University’s infrastructure, brought many of the country’s most able administrators to Harvard and steadfastly defended University’s right to academic liberty and freedom from outside influence...