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Electing the divestment candidates would be a first step for alumni toward reclaiming a voice in the governance of the University which has been too long muted or forgotten. The Board of Overseers has traditionally rubber-stamped the decisions of the seven-member Corporation, which holds legal title and authority over all that Harvard owns and does, but the overseers do have the power to approve, and to disapprove, the Corporation's decisions...
From the age of eight, Gooden and his closest neighborhood friend, Floyd Youmans, filled Tampa's afternoons with pepper. Using a battered aluminum can for a ball, they waged endless rounds of home-run derby or argued themselves angry over a game called Strikeout that featured a hard rubber ball, a red brick wall and a chalk-drawn strike zone. "Just me and him," Youmans whispers conspiratorially. "We weren't supposed to--the coaches all the way down the line told us not to--but we'd sneak out and practice throwing curve balls. When he was twelve, I knew...
...then, hitters forget every winter and have to be reminded every summer who the pitchers are. A young fellow named Floyd Youmans had a bright spring for Montreal and has pitched his way into the starting rotation. Maybe the best pitcher in baseball should dig up a hard rubber ball, a red brick wall and a chalk-drawn strike zone. There could be Strikeout games this summer...
...view in the new show, or on sale in East Village boutiques from Black Market and Batislavia to Tribe and 109 St. Mark's, are such items as an Eva Goodman nylon raincoat, colored like a beachball, done up with sailing-line pullies and decorated with squirmy rubber fishing lures; a black rubber dress with a zip from back to hem by Mariann Marlowe; and an all-vinyl snakeskin suit by Animal-X. Some of the clothes go for immediate impact over staying power. But there are a fair number of designers, like Morton and Goodman, who are imaginative enough...
...anniversary of the Soviet leader's first year in power, a period that has seen a new push for less liquor and more labor, tighter work discipline and more thrift. It was high time, Gorbachev made clear, to begin realizing those goals. In its final week, the congress rubber-stamped two separate economic outlines that bear the Gorbachev seal. Both emphasize the rebuilding of obsolete factories and concentration on machine-tool production, consumer goods and computer technology. But Gorbachev's defense of the centrally planned Soviet economy indicated that, unlike China's leaders, he is not prepared to tamper with...