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...Harvard has talent, the what's the problem? Are the players basically complacent, was the team unlucky, does the coach stink, is there a lack of leadership and spirit? It could be that all of these are partial explanations, but it's hard to pin down...
Wiggins said that cleaning up University Hall after the occupation cost Harvard $10,200 for labor. Cleaning up after the mill-in April 21 added another $1100 to the bill. He said these figures represented a "partial compilation" and did not include other expenses such as the cost of repairing ripped upholstery in the Faculty room...
...Department of Health, Education and Welfare is the most diversified bureaucracy in Washington. Entire governments in many other countries are more limited in scope. An industrialist would probably call it a conglomerate. A systems analyst would call it Mission Impossible. Robert Finch undoubtedly has his own phrase. A partial list of HEW's programs and institutions...
...script is full of out-of-place lines and suggestive unresolved themes--the black cat as evil's embodiment, Joan Allison's actions under a narcotic. In another director's hands their non-resolution would be irritating; for Ulmer they must remain suggestions. Only thus can they work as partial explanations of his characters' actions. Similarly, the script omits a lot of explanation of characters and events. But their resulting strangeness contributes to Black Cat's transcendence of normal experience. Ulmer uses all the odd events of his films to make his characters' evolution seem right...
...committee is also considering the possibility of dropping the slate system. If an individual member got enough signatures, he could run for one of the slots without a complete or partial slate. Another system under discussion would be comparable to the Cambridge City Council voting, where one's first choice gets seven votes, second choice six, and so froth. This method almost guarantees minority group representation. When the By-Laws Committee makes its suggestions to the stockholders and other directors, it will not be doubt propose some combination of the different plans to improve the voting method...