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...laxwomen took control of the game from the outset yesterday, keeping Dartmouth goalie Fran O'Donoghue busy all day, while seldom allowing the potent Big Green offense to pose much of a threat. By the time it was over, Den Hartog had sent eight shots careening past O'Donoghue while Finn had tallied five assists, the third of which broke her own Harvard record of assists in a season--all en route to the 22-8 triumph...
...Clark has no training in the substance of the memos. Indeed, he seems to be, in the uncomplimentary phrase of one White House aide, "content-free." He is conservative, but his ideological inclinations are visceral and seldom fine-tuned. Clark, a close friend of Reagan's, mainly seems to reinforce the President's rightward tendencies. On those rare occasions when he does come down hard on one side of an issue, Clark seems too emphatic, as if he seeks to be decisive for the sake of decisiveness. Says a senior State Department official: "He makes decisions that only...
Central Massachusetts has been praised for its mountains and river valleys, but seldom for its weather. The Harvard softballers found out why as they split a doubleheader with Holy Cross at Worcester under conditions that have become all too familiar to the Crimson squad...
...important fact about the Administrative Board to keep in mind at all times is that it seldom makes general policy. Virtually all of its business is composed of considering the circumstances of individual students, either students who seek exceptions to College rules or students who have transgressed College rules. By and large the Board does not make the rules it enforces. The College's rules are voted annually by the Faculty Council and the Faculty, and changes in those rules are proposed to the Faculty by other groups such as CUE, the Core Standing Committee, a little known subcommittee...
Another possibility is that there is a second, seldom articulated assumption of U.S. strategic policy--that America is a superpower capable of launching nuclear holocaust, and that we intend to remain one. The United States justifies a credible first-strike force--and its unwillingness to renounce the first use of nuclear weapons--as necessary to keep the vastly more powerful Soviet conventional forces at bay in Europe and elsewhere...