Word: problem
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...pretty happy with the team's performance in recent games, but we didn't play that well at Vermont," said sophomore midfielder Roger Buttles, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Week. "Part of the problem was that we were looking ahead to Cornell, and we know this is a huge Ivy League game coming...
...problem is that dialogue is useless when it doesn't involve the key players. The longer Wilson and Chairman of the Board of Trustees Nancy-Beth G. Sheerr '71--and for that matter, President Rudenstine and his fellow administrators working on the issue--remain silent about their negotiations, the harder it will be for alumnae and students to have a real role in the evolution of an institution which is rightfully theirs. Shouldn't an educational institution place emphasis on dialogue and cooperation instead of silence and secrecy when considering change...
...controversy over the takeover was reignited when former Dunster House Senior Tutor Roger Rosenblatt published hisComing Apart, a memoir of Harvard at the time of the takeover. Like so much of the 1960's--the abstract concept of "the sixties" is condemned by conservatives as the root of every problem from drug abuse to the Clinton presidency and praised by liberals as the heyday of the civil rights movement--University Hall has been inflated to near-mythic status...
Hordes of chemistry TFs stagger by on JFK Street, laughing and dancing into the night. They aren t grading problem sets or torturing helpless students with orbitals, precipitation and thermochemical reactions. They are having fun. They ve shed the monogrammed lab coats and the protective plastic goggles in order to go out and spend the department s money...on beer...
...Even if Starr comes across as a most genial and reasonable guy," says Novak, "it will be too little and too late to appease his many critics." To his opponents, his work exemplifies the problem of an out-of-proportion, if not out-of-control, probe. "Many on the Hill believe his investigation has sprawled too far, pulled in too many bystanders and cost too much," says Novak. Furthermore, Starr will arrive at the hearings with a self-dealt weakened hand: the current contempt prosecution of Susan McDougal -- her third major legal battle stemming from Starr's Whitewater investigation...