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Field goal range. Victory. The catbird seat. Thoughts now turned to (a) hanging on to the ball and (b) giving the kicker the best possible situation and field placement to do his thing. The offense had three plays to get the ball in the middle of the field for kicker Gary Bosnic...
...This detatchment could be Bogarde's fault: maybe he's too prim to pull us in the way someone like Alan Bates might have. Or maybe Fassbinder and Stoppard work so hard at distancing us from him physically, framing him, blocking him, giving us a sense of deliberate camera placement, that they forget about bringing him closer at key emotional moments, or building any kind of suspense or anticipation...
Committee members work for a variety of community and labor organizations in the Boston area, in an effort to learn how these groups work to lessen economic inequalities. In addition to Local 880, the CEC offers its members placement in Mass Fair Share, Cambridge Tenants Organization and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers. The committee has about 20 to 25 members, who attend weekly dinner meetings devoted to formulating theories of change drawn from these personal experiences, Damman says...
Though the CEC has often worked with Local 880, committee members also work with other community organizations, some Harvard-related and some not. Van Dyke says one of the most important placement areas remains Mass Fair Share, a Boston-based organization which, among other activities, has pushed the University to increase the payments it makes to Cambridge and Boston for its tax-exempt land holdings...
...Committee on Undergraduate Education, a student-faculty advisory group, convinced the Faculty Council last spring to delete a section of the Core report that recommended instituting a placement test to allow qualified freshmen to place out of the Expos requirement. Marius says he does not want to see that recommendation reinstated. "It would put a lot of pressure on us if Expos were branded as a remedial course," Marius says. "You get enough opposition to any course that is required without making students feel that their presence in the course is in some way a failure." He adds, "I would...