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Volume VI and VII concerned with the issues peculiar to Harvard Square and the actual plan itself, will not be ready until July 1. But through conversations with Planning Department officials, the following proposals seem likely to emerge in some form...
This must seem a peculiar moment to publish a supplement about George Orwell. As we write, the Pan African Liberation Committee and Harvard Afro have just left Massachusetts Hall. There have been calls for strikes and direct action, and the bullhorn speech is the order of the day. For many of us this is a time of commitment, tactical thinking, and leaflet prose...
...Columbia spokesman said yesterday she had not heard about the suit. "All I know is that we've been having trouble with our phones all day, it's nothing peculiar to them," she said, referring to the newspaper and radio station...
...commercial is really just a peculiar twist to Madison Avenue's increasingly tiresome obsession with nostalgia. Ole Bob, now 54, actually opens with his patented "Say, kids" routine, which is followed by a memory-jangling jingle, "It's Riunite time, it's Riunite wine . . ." Then Buffalo zeroes in on his old fans. "Yes, sir, this is your old buddy, Buffalo Bob. You know, you were little kids when you watched me on television, and all you were allowed to drink back then was milk. But now you're old enough to enjoy a little wine, right...
...other killings that constitute the vast majority of murders in the U.S. Instead, the Mafia practices a drama of implacable tribal will: just as Clausewitz defined war as foreign policy by other means, La Cosa Nostra regards murder as an instrument of business-often conducted with a vengeance. The peculiar vogue that the Mafia is now enjoying in films and books may spring from a kind of stylish atavism that Americans recognize in a brute feudal system that allows swift retribution with no red tape. In part, it simply appeals to the antibureaucratic impulse, the secret instinct that things...