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...report] seems to refer to general approval of admissions policies," said Daniel Steiner '54, the University's vice-president and general counsel. He added last week, "The admissions operation at Harvard is the envy of universities across the country...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: Harvard Admissions Off The Hook (But What About Those Legacies?) | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

Sexual assault cases thus fell under the disciplinary board's loose prohibition against "behavior unbecoming a Harvard student." Ad Board members generally interpret this clause to refer to behavior that violates Massachusetts state law, says Janet A. Viggiani, co-chair of the task force...

Author: By E.k. Anagnostopoulos, | Title: Rethinking the Way Harvard Treats Date Rape | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...refer to this bundle of proposals as reform is to deprive the word of all of its ordinary meanings," SPOA member John Natale said in an interview yesterday. "These proposals haven't done a goddamn thing to help...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Cambridge City Council To Work for 'Tenant Tax' | 5/8/1991 | See Source »

...participate in his coach's prayer sessions. Unfortunately, the author employs a nauseating stream-of-consciousness style--the entire story takes, place in the mind of a pitcher during one at-bat. In addition, the language used in this story is pretentious and unlikely--would a pitcher really refer to those "whose crayon mouths masticate rubbery soft and juices boil over like sour...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Splendor in the Grass: Writers Celebrate the Game of Baseball | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

Nancy Reagan watchers used to refer to it as "the gaze." It was that look of rapt attention she fixed on people, a look that implied the recipient was the most important person in the world. Classmates at Smith College may have been the first to notice it; she developed it further in Hollywood while wooing Ronald Reagan. But the gaze became most famous during Nancy Reagan's days in the White House: the frozen, doe-eyed stare of adoration that the First Lady would fix on the President whenever she watched him speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Lady And the Slasher | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

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