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Former council member, Anjalee Davis was certainly right to caution the Council against "an orgy of self-congratulation." But no one is suggesting that we're a paragon of successful student government. Clearly, the lack of commitment demonstrated by a number of Council members is a cause of concern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Give Credit to U.C. First-Years | 3/5/1994 | See Source »

...finally comes out about Vole and the trial, one truly feels betrayed. Mark Fish as Sir Wilfrid Robarts, Vole's attorney, provides an appropriate balance for Zelman's quirkiness. Tempering his strong voice and presence with genuine smiles and engaging body language, Fish manages to make Sir Wilfrid, a paragon of logial thinking and stability, into a very human character with a sense of humor and a heart...

Author: By Ariel Foxman, | Title: Witness Guilty of Slow Pacing | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...unlike the experience of a green first-year who's come halfway across the country to study at Harvard, the paragon of the American intellectual community. Here, they've heard, are souls interested in articulating their passions, in sharing their ideas--a community, in the words of Henry David. Thoreau, which sucks the marrow out of life...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: The Culture of Stress | 11/6/1993 | See Source »

...film takes us through the defining early moments of Ivan's reign: his marriage to the beloved Anastasia, immortalized as the paragon of duty and honor; the conflicts and intrigues among the boyars, who are fearful of the new tsar's control; Ivan's relationship with his friend Kurbsky, who secretly harbors resentments for his number two status; and Ivan's early sickness, which makes everyone in the court wonder about the tenuous future of the Russian state. Part I ends with the death of Anastasia, a turning point for Ivan, who loses the only person in his court that...

Author: By Deborah E. Kopald, | Title: Russian Pomp and Circumstances | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

Johnson, a Boston police area commander in Roxbury and Mattapan, arrived at Harvard in December 1983. Then General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 said he hired the new chief, who did not have the experience in college police work that Chafin had, because of his reputation as a paragon of professionalism...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: The Rise and Fall of HUPD | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

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