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John B. Manulis '78, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club, said he was glad the regulation allowed faculty advisers to select non-Harvard performers...
...turn 45.6 million hectares (114 million acres) of federally owned lands-some 30% of Alaska's total area-into protected parklands. The first rumblings of the Alaska land war were heard in 1959, when the vast territory became a state. The Statehood Act allowed the state to select 41.6 million hectares (104 million acres) of Alaska's 150 million hectares (375 million acres) -an area the size of New England, New York and Pennsylvania-for economic development, but it ignored the claims of an estimated 77,000 native Alaskan Eskimos, Aleuts and Indians. The 1971 Alaska Native Claims...
Some people have gotten as far as the part where God makes light, the oceans and man on successive days. A select few even claim to have read that on the seventh day the Lord rested. But don't believe them. They have missed the fine print...
Panayote Dmitros, the chairman of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Student Council, said yesterday Dean Rosovsky should select any graduate student representative to the Graduate Education Council minority admissions review subcommittee from the ranks of the Council rather than from the ad hoc group...
...world levels, increase prices of newly discovered natural gas by 20% (to approach oil prices), slap a 5¢-per-gal. tax on gasoline each year if conservation goals were not met, and use tax penalties on "gas guzzler" cars and rebates on small cars to encourage purchasers to select energy-efficient autos. To many liberals, this was not going far enough. "Large Chevy owners will now have to switch to small Chevies. I don't consider this a sacrifice," said Tom Quinn, special assistant on environmental protection to California Governor Jerry Brown...