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...been Labor strongholds to the Tory enclaves of suburbia. Parliamentary districts were redrawn for last week's election to reflect that migration, and the Tories clearly gained. "Social changes are taking place which make the Conservatives the party of the future and Labor the party of the past," says Robert Waller, author of The Almanac of British Politics. "Labor has been reduced to the party of the minorities...
...market. "The students you talk to want to do well," says retired Harvard Sociologist David Riesman. "They want to do more than pass their courses, and they want more than a job. They want a career. Sex and drugs are distractions, things that are no longer new and exciting." Robert McGinley, of Buena Park, Calif, head of the North American Swing Club Association, believes the economy is probably the major factor in the recent decline of swinging, a euphemism for mate swapping and group sex. Attendance at swing parties, he says, dropped 15% to 30% in early 1983, and attendance...
...characters.Miniucchi envisioned each scene of the film as a continuous take. “That would give the actors more freedom of movement and it would be more natural, more suitable to the material that we were trying to film.”Miniucchi points to director Robert Altman as a major influence in her style of camerawork. After filming a lecture Altman delivered at Harvard while she was a student, Miniucchi turned the material into a short documentary. “I remember him standing here and explaining to us how he would use the camera throughout his films...
...Robert Trivers, the Rutgers biologist noted for his public spat with Harvard Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, made a Valentine’s Day visit to Cambridge yesterday. But it wasn’t candy hearts and flowers that he brought with...
...face broader disclosure requirements than HUPD due to differences between Massachusetts and Connecticut laws. “Connecticut law defines a public [agency] differently than Massachusetts law, by including within its rubric non-public agencies that are the functional equivalent of a public agency,” said Robert A. Bertsche, The Crimson’s attorney, in an e-mailed statement...