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...question of who eventually gets the city's franchise steps ahead of the referendum's query. Cambridge should be allowed to compete for the sake of competition, to push private operators for their best package. The cable industry has been backsliding of late on franchise options, particularly in the area of public access. The presence of a municipally operated bidder will prevent this in Cambridge, ensuring its residents the full benefits possible from cable technology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Questions 1 and 3 | 11/5/1983 | See Source »

Both spend a couple of hours each week teaching inmates and parolees to read and write. Rippy says it helps him remember that "there are people outside of Harvard who want to learn just for the sake of learning, and not to get into Medical or Law School." Rippy is a Harvard Law School applicant...

Author: By Benjamin R. Reder, | Title: Felix Rippy and Paul McNulty | 10/28/1983 | See Source »

...initiation could soon become a tragedy. The worst thing the Ad Board could do would be to treat the Pi as an isolated group or simply make an example of it; at the next initiation at any club, anyone drinking too much would be in double jeopardy. For the sake of tradition, that club's officers couldn't afford to take him to UHS. The possibility of an inebriated or injured person in need of medical attention being left in an alumni chair because the club couldn't risk the publicity is not one the University can allow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Too Serious To Ignore | 10/25/1983 | See Source »

...would just like to respond to Mike Knobler's article, "Green With Envy," not as an attack on him, but for the sake of the Harvard students who were given the wrong idea about Dartmouth. The picture of Hanover that Mr. Knobler points is that of "a miserable place to spend an afternoon, let alone four years." In fact, Dartmouth is located in beautiful Hanover, N.H., where the foliage is now breathtaking, the air is always fresh and clean, the mountains are great for hiking and camping, and soon for hiking, and serenity of a college "alone in the wilderness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Need to be 'Green with Envy' | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...Michael Zametkin, first editor of the Jewish Daily Forward), she flung herself into liberal causes. In a bold step for the 1930s, she adopted a son despite her single status. Bolder still, she went on to bear a son in secret without notifying the father; then, for the sake of appearances and the other child, she contrived to go through the motions of adopting the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Making Do | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

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