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...sound familiar, the Outing Club may be just the solution to your Harvard ennui. Sponsoring anywhere from two to eight trips a week, the 43-year-old club offers under graduates, grad students, faculty members and alumni the chance to escape Cambridge and participate in expeditions ranging from demanding peak ascents in Canada to soothing walks along Massachusetts beaches...
...Affairs Committee last week, Budget Director David Stockman attempted to wave away the disruptive threat of projected Administration deficits by arguing that they will constitute a smaller proportion of a larger economy than before. The claim is a very weak reed to lean on. During Jimmy Carter's peak deficit year of 1980, the red ink reached $59.5 billion, or 2.3% of the nation's $2.6 trillion gross national product. By contrast, the CBO's projected Reagan deficit of $109 billion for fiscal 1982 will be at least 3.6% of the G.N.P., or within...
...there hope? This week, the J. Geils Band has settled itself onto the sunny, snowy peak of the Billboard chart. Score one for the good guys. J. Geils has managed to nudge off Foreigner, which on and off occupied the top slot for eleven weeks. Score eleven for the bad guys. And these days, in rock and in the record business, the bad guys are winning...
...worry about the political clout, or the dignity, of people they show (dignity in hockey?). They are freer to rearrange reality. Roone Arledge invented prime-time Olympics-singling out anticipated stars to build up in advance, juggling tapes, and the clock to show the most dramatic events at peak hours. Purists may object that Arledge's rewed-up Olympics test like the sprawly Olympics of actuality, but the test is the same as for orange-juice concentrate: more people seem to prefer it to the real thing...
...tumbling brown locks, the widow's peak, the natural eyebrows, the full lips, the dimple on the right cheek. They are all there, only smaller. Much, much smaller. For those who loved the movies (The Blue Lagoon, Endless Love) and bought the Calvins, it is now time for the next artistic level: the Brooke Shields doll. Beginning in April, LJN Toys will flood toy stores with some 2 million Barbie-size, $12 replicas of Brookie in a hot-pink sweaterdress, ribbed tights and white plastic cowboy boots. LJN paid Shields, 16, $1 million for the privilege, and she dutifully...