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I have always liked the nickname "Crimson"--simple, different, and connoting none of the aggressive, animalistic traits so often associated with sports. The University is fortunate that its nickname fuses understatement with tradition. While "Big Green" is a bit awkward, it is certainly more pleasing than the proposed alternative. Dartmouth...
Phillips came away from the assignment with a very personal souvenir: Borg's coach, Lennart Bergelin, undertook to massage away her chronic case of tennis elbow. "Borg calls him Dr. Black-and-Blue, and now I know why," says Phillips. "After the massage, my arm swelled up and turned...
According to a 1979 Pentagon study, it would take about $5.5 billion in pay hikes right now to "reestablish the relative positions which existed at the end of 1971 between the military and the civilian power to purchase goods and services." The raise endorsed by Carter last week is not...
Though the DOE grants have spurred energy innovation, the program has also collected its critics. Last December Senator William Proxmire awarded his monthly Golden Fleece award to the DOE for spending $1,200 to build and test "an above-ground aerobic and solar-assisted composting toilet," an outhouse elevated 2...
The big difference was youth--a startling ten freshmen on the squad, a scattering of talented sophomores and juniors and only four seniors. The result was a speedier, more aggressvie and more enthusiastic squad--a competitive and fan-pleasing, if not always victorious, combination.