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They could hardly restrain themselves, waiting for the opening faceoff last night at Bright. The Engineers, boasting the East's top offense and almost all playing in their first playoff game, raced out to center ice for the lineup introductions, looking psyched to knock off the Crimson...
...committed an act that was potentially dangerous. No apology can be adequate. My conduct reflects badly on the Harvard community, of which I am proud to be a part, and I am extremely sorry. I can only hope that my embarrassment and remorse may serve as an example to restrain others from behaving so foolishly. Sandro A. Carella...
...Ronald Reagan's sinking fortunes. Harvard's vaunted Conservative Club, for example, disappeared altogether from public view after a semester of shrill heckling. But in my eagerness to dispel myth, I had obscured the key aspect of the Harvard undergraduate psyche. Despite the popularity of easy progressive positions--restrain the Reagan arms binge, help poor people, integrate the Law School faculty--most students here are dedicated conformists prone to inward-looking contentment...
Richman, whose other interests include the merchandising of Elvis Presley collectibles, has not managed to restrain the manufacture of vulgar, blatantly exploitative junk. In After the Fall, a play about a Monroe-esque bombshell, Dramatist Arthur Miller, her real-life third husband, has the stage husband warn the heroine: "It's not the money they take; it's the dignity they destroy." True, even 20 years later...
...more) on long-term corporate bonds. Bond buyers fear that a too rapid expansion of the money supply by the Federal Reserve could eventually reignite inflation. As a result, they demand high interest as protection against rising prices. But until bond rates come down, companies will continue to restrain their capital spending. After the cut in the discount rate last week, long-term interest rates initially fell, but they bounced back up again, partly out of concern that the Federal Reserve was easing too much and risking future inflation. Concluded Greenspan...