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Junior All-American Howard Sands returns as Harvard's most potent threat. Coach Dave Fish describes Sands as "a beautiful touch player, with a great volleying game. He's just a great control player who tries to break [his opponent...
...full-page newspaper advertisement from Tenneco Inc. brimmed with pride. As its contribution to the Reagan Administration's arms buildup, the company announced that it had delivered not one but two potent new neclear-powered warships to the U.S. Navy in a single day: the 93,000-ton aircraft carrier Carl Vinson and the 6,900-ton attack submarine Atlanta. Proclaimed the ads' headline: MISTER PRESIDENT, WE HAVE BEGUN...
...years ago, D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation was the history of the Civil War for many moviegoers; so far as millions of TV watchers are concerned, Roots told them all they need to know about slavery. A vivid new movie, Missing, promises to be similarly potent for audiences around the world, suggesting that the U.S. not only helped mastermind the 1973 coup in Chile, but condoned the murder of a young American who stumbled upon the secret. The question being debated among concerned citizens, journalists and even the U.S. State Department: How factual is the film...
That freedom undoubtedly keeps students happy--at least, the 80 percent for whom the lottery works. It forecloses, however, a potent option for the college to improve undergraduate life. Most administrators concur that any system that makes two Houses 3 percent Black and another 17 percent Black, a system that allows one House to have 45 percent varsity athletes while another has 4.7 percent is a far cry from the ideal House that would be a microcosm of the College. Reliance on the preferential lottery also builds up and reinforces House stereotypes, adds to the frustration of those sent...
...most watched, and most politically potent, of the monthly economic figures issued by Washington, and it keeps creeping upward. The unemployment rate in the U.S. last December reached 8.9%, in contrast to 8.4% the previous month and 8% in October. In human terms, the number meant that 9.5 million American workers had no jobs in December. This week the Bureau of Labor Statistics will announce the unemployment rate for January and it will almost certainly be up again, perhaps surpassing the previous postwar record of 9% reached...