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...committee meetings. On one occasion, the committee was discussing the rental of vacant apartments. In previous months, Harvard had rented to students, hippies, and other transients to case the process of eviction. Tenants requested that rental priority be given to families, and casually used the words "responsible persons" to refer to married couples...
Instead, the faculty voted almost unanimously to have the Administrative Board refer to the committee all disciplinary matters involving obstruction of "essential University functions" and to rely heavily upon its recommendations...
Asked about his unsuccessful bid to be New York City Council President, Breslin smiled. "I refer to it as Norman Mailer's campaign," he said. But he was serious about his and Mailer's platform position that New York should be the fifty-first state. "To discuss the city of New York in any way other than it handling its own business is insanity. It's like nursing a cancer patient. New programs are bullshit. Money starts the whole game...
...Committee has given and will continue to give to each student appearing before it the right to have a tape recording made of the procedings to which he and his adviser (as well as the Committee) can later freely refer in reconsidering any disciplinary action. We only stipulate that the recording not be for public release...
...many as 30 U.S. and British divisions, capture the strategic supply port of Antwerp, and perhaps end the war in the West with a negotiated peace. Hitler thought of it as another Dunkirk and code-named it "Wacht am Rhein [Watch on the Rhine]." Allied archives would later refer to "the Battle of the Ardennes." To men who were there when the offensive began 25 years ago this week, it was "the breakthrough" or "the Battle of the Bulge"-and a time of sheer nightmare...