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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find the evidence too confusing to vote conviction. More over, one of the chief witnesses against him, Lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli, the court-appointed liquidator of Sindona's bankrupt Italian empire, was killed last month by three gunmen in Milan, a day before he was to sign a 50-page deposition for U.S. prosecutors...
...acquainted visit." The fact is that Saudi leaders have said time and again for that past six years that there is an intimate connection between the oil and Palestinian issues. Arafat certainly talks like a man who believes he has that kind of muscle behind him (see interview, following page...
...gets in a pinch, he resorts to quoting other authors or citing reams of ridiculous data--in four months of the New York Times, for example, Harvard was mentioned in connection with its graduates three times more than all other colleges combined. Essentially, the book is a 237-page collection of odd quotes, bizarre statistics, dull anecdotes, and drivel. The author strikes a particularly banal chord when he tries to add some organization to his endless list of alums. At one point, he tries to explain the difference between the proto-Harvard man--one whose ancestors also attended the school...
...right, however, is a page from the Crimson's Confidential Guide to Courses at Harvard-Radcliffe for 1979-1980. As you can see, it's a bit more interesting than the course catalogue, and a lot more informative. The Confi Guide tells you what a course is about, how well it is taught, how difficult it is, and how worthwhile it is. Better still, the Confi Guide is written by students who have lived through the courses, not the administration or the faculty. It's like having 100 upperclassmen advisers...
...course requirements last year included regular attendance at section meetings, the submission of five-out-of-11 problem sets based on the tools learned each week, a 20- to 30-page analysis of a specific international conflict and a five-page synthesis of this longer paper...