Word: ralph
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...American flag is not only a burning issue these days but also a hot fashion statement. Designers are slapping Old Glory on everything from barrettes to bikinis. After his $300 stars-and-stripes sweater sold out last fall, Ralph Lauren created three-spangled swimsuits that are moving briskly at up to $72. Saks Fifth Avenue's New Glory shirt ($57.50) sold out just in time for the Fourth of July. The shirt's success might have surprised Abbie Hoffman. The late yippie was once charged with flag desecration for wearing a shirt like Saks' best seller...
Environmentalist Kerr, 35, is the Ralph Nader of the old-growth preservation movement. As conservation director of the Oregon Natural Resources Council, a grass-roots coalition, he has spearheaded a guerrilla campaign in the courts, Congress and the media to drive the old-growth timber industry out of business. "Social change comes with social tension. We will do anything that's legal, anything," he says. "The more heat I take as a lightning rod, the better it is for this issue...
Such flipness has resulted in "a 24-hour stakeout on John Silber's mouth," in the words of media analyst Ralph Whitehead. The watch often pays off. Who else calls the Boston School Committee "otiose" or academic opponents "pismires" (derived from a Scandinavian term for urinating ants)? During his campaign, Silber declared that a person can live with alcohol abuse and still achieve at a high level, likened the oratory technique of Jesse Jackson to that of Adolf Hitler and asserted that "the racism of Jews is quite phenomenal." He told reporters early in the campaign, "I know...
...everyone is so content with the end result. Jaron Bourke '88, director of the Ralph Nader-sponsored group Harvard Watch, has sent letters to President Derek C. Bok and the heads of the Harvard hospitals criticizing the guidelines for their flexibility. He says that even under the new guidelines, Harvard's researchers are still not accountable to the public...
...Harvard Crimson junior athlete of the year, basketball's Ralph James, will be remembered for his performances on a "Lost Weekend" in February in Princeton, N.J. and Philadelphia...