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Lately, as I come to terms with the prospect of being bald as a cueball well before I'm old enough to drink, the hair-rub has developed an affectionate twist. Hey hair, how ya' doin'. Just checking to see if you're still there...
HEREIN lies the rub for divestment activists. Despite activists' wishful arguments to the contrary, South African Blacks will bear the brunt of economic dislocation brought on by sanctions. Indeed they must; the only way that sanctions can overcome apartheid is if they make Blacks miserable enough to overthrow the government...
...Expos or in seminars. But they could be much richer if they were not limited to 1600 students. Engineering more academic contact between first-years and upper-class students could only do good things for Harvard's neophytes. With any luck, the eagerness first-year students bring might rub off onto those of us whom Harvard has worn thin...
With the added experience gained from the junior nationals, Harvard Coach Harry Parker put Sharis in the Harvard varsity boat the following spring and Sharis' newfound magic touch continued to rub off, as the Crimson eight went on to win the national championship in Cincinnati...
Then comes a telling reference, frequently echoed in Moscow, to the aftermath of World War I: "The U.S. and the West must not rub our noses too much in our defeat; it must not impose on us at the end of the 20th century a version of the Treaty of Versailles that caused so much trouble at the beginning. We don't want to feel like Weimar Germany. And you shouldn't want us to." Not even in private will a patriotic Soviet finish that thought: the Weimar Republic gave way to Hitler's Third Reich. Yet that is what...