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...council has begun to awaken from its stupor and has spoken out on important issues like the all-male membership of Harvard's final clubs and the need for more minority and women faculty at Harvard. But without structural changes, there is no guarantee that the council's new-found political awareness will last longer than the academic year...
Kinder, Gentler Conservatives Dept.: The homeless should be happy to learn that Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp has pledged to aggressively enforce the McKinney Act, a measure that would transform unused, federally owned buildings into homeless shelters. Kemp's new-found enthusiasm for the bill is strange, considering that he voted against the act as a member of Congress...
...Heiskell's comments highlight the difficulty of gaging what impact the Corporation's new-found diversity will have on the previously all-male board's policies...
...delightful distress with his new-found rank is capably contrasted by Pooh-Bah's ridiculous revelling in his. "Born sneering," Bamberger struts, nose in the air, squeamishly shrinking from the touch of commoners ("Lower than the rank of stockbroker"), except when money is in the commoner's hand. He repeatedly reminds the audience of his nobility, tracing his lineage back to his "protoplasmic ancestor...
University of Rhode Island pitcher Steve Murphy added a slider to his pitching menu only three weeks ago. But yesterday, Murphy's new-found pitch helped cook the Crimson...