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...millions of Americans, Indian enterprise is synonymous with souvenir stands peddling leather moccasins and rubber tomahawks. But the Blackfeet and many other tribes across the country are determined to change that stereotyped image and provide employment on their economically depressed reservations...
...event, the Faculty meeting reinforced Bok's growing conviction that Harvard and its professors would not make good business bedfellows. When he announced the breaking off of the engagement (speaking for the Harvard Corporation, which had rubber stamped the president's decision), Bok attempted to untangle the dead Ptashne issue from what he considered a number of thriving, viable technology transfer ideas. Saying that the obstacles in the Ptashne case were surmountable, Bok added that "the participation of Harvard and its professors in commercial ventures can be structured in ways that are wholly consistent with its academic values...
...vote again in the fall on a constitution, which was drafted this spring, for the Student Council. If the Faculty and a majority of the entire undergraduate student body approve the specifics of the proposal in the fall, the issue will go to the Harvard Corporation for final, and rubber-stamp, approval. If all goes according to plan, the Dowling system could be in operation by second semester next year...
...black looneytune," Writer Michael Herr called it in his Viet Nam masterpiece Dispatches, Indochina became the demented intersection of a bizarrely inventive killer technology (all of those "daisy cutters" and carpet-laying B-52s and mad swarms of choppers and infra-red nightscopes) with a tunnel-digging peasantry in rubber-tire sandals: the amazing, night-dwelling Victor Charlie...
...under Parker and Garland Jeffreys, they are, in comparison, devoid of poetic direction. They seem to have so sense as to what covers work and what don't. The new album contains Randy Newman's "Have You Seen My Baby" (which has also been covered by Ringo Starr) and "Rubber Band Man", a song already perfectly executed by the Spinners...