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...ANYTHING interesting has ever happened at Harvard, it seems to have been systematically excised from this bland account. Historians generally tend to focus on the significance of periods of upheaval, but these essays emphasize the placid progress of an educational institution over a shifting population of faceless students and teachers. Student riots are glossed over or ignored. Wartime turbulence is omitted. Conspicuously absent is any mention of the most recent Harvard crisis of student demonstrations in the '60s. Clearly, such a short book cannot include all significant events in the University's formation. Yet the lack of any detailed examination...
UNLIKE SUNNY, the placid Helen bears no malice against her father, the ideal but unfortunately non-existent child of divorce. She doesn't seem to mind that her father has moved in with another woman, depleting the family finances so that she is no longer able to go to college. Working around the situation with admirable aplomb, she decides that the best thing for her to do would be to marry her boyfriend Tim, of whom she casually remarks, "Mom, I'm marrying a guy with no class...
Since that squad captured the gold medal in Lake Placid, N.Y., professional teams like the Flames have gradually realized that the Canadian junior leagues are no longer the only breeding ground for the NHL--Harvard and other undergraduate institutions are spawning top-caliber players as well...
...overall in the NHL draft...taken by New Jersey Devils in the eighth round...three-year letter winner at St. Paul's...team captain-as a senior...will play left wing on Crimson second line...played for Team Massachusetts in Junior Olympics...chosen for Junior Select Camp at Lake Placid...
...time serial, it is one that, before Lady Diana Spencer joined the cast, was having ratings problems. The characters had become predictable: no more wildly inappropriate flings for Princess Margaret; prickly Princess Anne had turned goody-goody; crusty Philip made nary a gaffe; and the Queen, as ever, was placid perfection. For Charles, the role of bachelor Prince was becoming old hat; the public grew tired of a succession of Charlie's Angels but never a bride. Then, like an inspired casting director, Charles picked an unlikely ingenue for the role of Princess: the girl next door. Voila! She became...