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...writing in response to Diana Ross' visit to campus. When the Harvard Foundation invited Sugar Ray Leonard here I was not very alarmed. It was only an instance of silliness--nothing to worry about. But now that Miss Ross has came and been honored. I fear that a pattern has been established. Instead of denouncing much a trend with hard words. I would like to suggest another way that the Foundation can bring a little Hollywood to Harvard. Why don't they invite Duffy Duck? Oh yea, that little varmint will pack'em in. In addition, he fits the Foundation...
Despite my desire to see that Professor Klein is able to stay here, it is important to understand her denied promotion in the context of a consistent pattern of decisions about tenure and promotion. Harvard is not particularly committed to finding and retaining talented teachers. Rather, their goal is to maintain the reputation--not the quality--of this institution by tenuring well-known scholars regardless of their ability to teach. In fact, those professor who have committed time and energy to teaching and to their students often found themselves behind in the race to publish and to achieve academic renown...
With her restless spirit, and the enlightened narcissism of the star performer, Nastassia has set a pattern for her affairs: love beautifully, leave quickly. "I always fall in love while I'm working on a film," she says. "It's such an intense thing, being absorbed into the world of a movie. It's like discovering you have a fatal illness, with only a short time to live. So you live and love twice as deeply. Then you slip out of it, like a snakeskin, and you're cold and naked. What worries me is that when these loves...
...many analysts to suspect that a long-expected "market correction," or sharp drop, might be coming. Wall Street, however, has weathered a number of such pauses since last summer, and each time stocks have gone higher again. Says Robert Farrell, chief market analyst for Merrill Lynch: "Since August the pattern of this bull market has been four to five weeks of advance followed by two to four weeks of consolidation. There have been four advancing periods and four consolidations...
...this forum author David Solomon pointed out in his opening remarks that "Although many governments have attempted to eradicate the use (of cannabis) by declaring it illegal, in those areas where it has become part of the cultural pattern (as if Africa, India, Asia, and Latin America) no authority has been able to suppress it for long." Solomon believes the issues raised by the existence of psychoactive substances transcend the risks and benefits of any particular drug: "No social authority can successfully arrogate unto itself the right to dictate or fix the levels of consciousness to which man may aspire...