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...really neat how Harvard is diverse," a roommate agrees...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett and Suzanne R. Spring, S | Title: Musings From the Mouths of Babes | 11/26/1980 | See Source »

...Roller says, "when you think of Army surplus, you think of only a fraction of what the Federal Government generates." Roaming his domain, Roller glows as he handles a 400-ft. roll of computer paper. "These are neat," he says. "Schools can use them for drawing paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iowa: A Wizard of Odds and Ends | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...YEARS AGO Enrique Lopez gathered together the most galling anecdotes about Harvard students and their legendary conceit he could find. He saran-wrapped the stories in discussions about the privilege of the exceptional, and arranged the packages in neat rows labelled with the names of the famous. He offered the formless, appalling concoction as The Harvard Mystique, more like a warmed-over TV dinner than a book, and called it an investigation of the conditions of acceptance into, attendance, and graduation from the oldest of Ivy League institutions...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: Students of Today | 11/12/1980 | See Source »

...television. Television is a show-business medium. The evening news is a series of minidramas. But real life is not played out in such minidramas, and the real choices the President and Congress face are not framed in such neat, capsulized ways. More often than not, what is emotionally appealing - and therefore dramatically captivating - is intellectually vacuous and substantively wrong. What makes good television often makes bad policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Two Ex-Presidents Assess the Job | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

...contrast to Durkin's office in Manchester, Rudman's--situated a block up the street (on the other side of the road, of course)--is quiet. Volunteer Priscilla Jacobsen sits alone at a neat desk. "Mr. Rudman would make a fine senator. He was a fine state attorney general. He's definitely moderate--not right wing, not liberal. He has the right answers," she says. Having just lost her job, Jacobsen is getting involved with politics for the first time. "I'm exuberant," she says, adding that the presidential primary sparks a political consciousness that lasts until election...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Existentialism in Granite | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

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