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...Olsen said the committee hopes to use information gathered from the survey as proof that some of Harvard's policies should be changed...
...Mark L. Olsen '82, a member of the council's Freshman Dean's Office Advisory Committee, which wrote the survey, said yesterday the survey is designed to "pinpoint the major problems of the freshman class and to point them out to University authorities...
...right, but it is at least a joke that nearly everyone has heard. Superman, along with Lois Lane, Cub Reporter Jimmy Olsen and Editor Perry White, comes close to being a mythological figure, not only in the U.S. but around the world. "You can't mess about with a myth," says Designer John Barry, who also did the sets for Star Wars and A Clockwork Orange. "Too many fans would be at your throat...
...Leif Olsen, a star economist at Manhattan's Citibank, points out that business borrowing from commercial banks in the first nine months of this year rose at an annual rate of 15.1%, and borrowing by households is also at a record high. Borrowing by Government to finance budget deficits adds to the demand. Alan Greenspan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, singles out mortgage credit as "a monster loose in the system," devouring money. People are not only borrowing to build new houses but taking out second mortgages on existing homes to finance spending of various types. During...
...LAST PORTION of Silences Olsen rescues from oblivion Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills by reprinting a larage part of it. Published in an 1861 Atlantic Monthly, this searing story was the first work of American fiction to focus on industrialization and its human cost. Davis's book work was also concerned with "ifs:" she tried to see her subject's lives as they might been not as they were. Tillie Olsen first read Life in the Iron Mills when she was fifteen after buying it "for ten cents in an Omaha junkshop." But the work published...