Word: reading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have read about how in the last Boston-Quebec game, beer sales jumped every time there was a fight on the ice. Conversely, the lack of fighting on the ice may make people buy less beer...
...Obviously, his chances really aren't that good, but the story treats Babbitt as if he's not even in the race at all, as if the only thing interesting that Babbitt has to say is his speculation about the other candidates. The story was not responsible. I also read the Boston Globe's story on the Babbitt interview, and it was as if the Globe reporter had attended a different event. Somehow, the Globe reporter was able to write a whole story on Babbitt's policies concerning Gramm-Rudman, taxes, education, abortion, immigration, and foreign policy...
...pleased to see in The Crimson the headline "Dining Halls to Phase Out Styrofoam" (December 12) As I began to read the article, however, I found that the University's plan was simply to switch to paper! Since the beginning of my freshman year, when I watched hundreds of cups pile up in the trash barrels of the Freshman Union every day. I have been greatly disturbed by the use of disposable cups in Harvard dining halls. Although a switch from styrofoam to paper would be an improvement, it still does not strike me as a satisfactory solution...
...faculty members against changing the requirement said that the works now included on the reading list are truly the best works that one can read...
DIRECTOR Michael Ritchie '60, in a recent interview in Boston, said when he read the part of Burns he "thought immediately of Dan Aykroyd--the smooth-talking conniver who can BS his way out of anything." Those of us who tend to think of Aykroyd more in terms of an unfunny fat man may have trouble discerning Ritchie's meaning. At any rate, the portrayal of a mental patient as a shyster who fakes mental illness to avoid responsibility is highly offensive to anyone who has had contact with the disease...