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That is what Campaign officials hope will happen at Harvard. If all goes according to this university's experience, they say, there will be no correlation between the new tax laws and giving. On the other hand, they admit that it is impossible to predict the results of any new measure, regardless of past performance. In any event, though, they are prepared to fight models with manpower. "If we let this [decreased giving] happen, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy," Boland says...
...Bertagna said that 30-40 of the seats in the old pressbox were obstructed view and hence were rarely used. He added that for most games he does not predict any problems in seating...
...Robert E. Klitgaard '68, associate professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School and special assistant to President Bok. The so-called "Klitgaard report" stated that Blacks and other minorities who do well on aptitude tests do not perform as well academically as their scores would seem to predict. It also envisions the possibility that Blacks might be more comfortable at a "lesser" university where their intellectual abilities would more closely match those of other students...
...changes so quickly it's impossible to predict," he observes. "I used to use notebooks and refer to them, but they're useless. For this job you've got to be here...
...tactic will bring down Khomeini or, if it does, that Rajavi will be the beneficiary. Rouhollah K. Ramazani, an Iran watcher at the University of Virginia, suggests that "Khomeini still has a tenacious hold on the people, especially the lower classes." French experts, who were among the first to predict the Shah's demise, contend that the Mujahedin may have suffered more at the Khomeini government's hands than they are willing to admit. Some Western intelligence sources doubt that the Mujahedin, though superbly organized, have as many followers as they claim. "They are not a popular movement...