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...profitable--wasteland reserved for performers with one smash record so monstrously huge that no one will ever forget their names, but, by the same token, so monstrously huge that they will never come close to matching it. It's a career built on the past, and thus that much safer for the audience; no surprises here. Orlando sings Sweet Gypsy Rose and Mack the Knife, says a few kind words about Tom Jones--an over-the-hill Wayne Newton, but an upscale Engelbert Humperdinck--and then talks about his inspiration. Two men have inspired him, Orlando says, two men whose...
...past, there was a lot of denial about the existence of crimes at Harvard, especially rape," says Sharon J. Orr '83, the principal author of "Playing It Safe." "But once it's out in the open, everyone will be safer. I wanted to make it clear exactly what you can do to help prevent crimes and what to do if you're a victim...
...members say they are pleased by the changes in security over the summer and expect the campus to be safer this year. Nevertheless, they plan to push for further improvements, including better security in the Mather House area, an all-night escort service, and "victim advocacy" in rape cases. "It's not perfect and it never will be perfect," says Elisabeth A. Einaudi '83, former president of the organization. "But I think things are getting better."Eight new mercury-vapor lamps, slated to be installed at the Radcliffe Quad by mid-October, are part of the increasing effort to beef...
...course, the main reason for the death of the insult is the death of confrontation in general. Time was when enemies would wholeheartedly enjoy squaring off, ram to ram. Not today, not in the world of cold war conversation, where it is judged safer and saner to say nothing and assume the worst than to say the worst and get on with it. Now the insult retreats behind a tinny smile and emerges lame from the mouths of wimps at cocktail parties, grasping soda water in both hands and leveling a whine: "I really don't think much...
...supervisors who have returned to their scopes, insists Irving Moss, the FAA's New York spokesman, are "the college professors of the air controllers. They know controlling forward and backward. They have been running more traffic than we thought possible and they are bringing the planes in under safer conditions than ever." Moss insists that the supervisors enjoy being relieved of paperwork and are now "on a real high" because they "came in when they were needed and kept the planes flying...