Word: sessions
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...most important programs: a $25 billion income tax cut and a package of 20 proposals to reform the federal tax system, which during his campaign he had called, not without reason, "a disgrace to mankind." When the House Ways and Means Committee last week began a final writing session on the bill, the cut had been reduced to $15 billion and all the reforms had been removed. Instead there will almost certainly be a slash in the capital gains tax, which the President opposes as a benefit primarily to the well...
...Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and Israel this week to lay the groundwork for more talks. Vance himself will return to the Middle East to chair another meeting between the Israelis and the Egyptians in early August. Washington hopes to synthesize the positions of the two sides and broaden the next session to include defense and legal experts who could then carry the talks on into the details of withdrawal, new borders and security guarantees...
Centennial +3: Celebration of the 103rd Summer Session. Features music, dance, drama and refreshments. All afternoon, Harvard Yard. Free. Concert: Harvard Glee Club. Winds up Centennial +3 celebration. Final appearance of F. John Adams as conductor. 7 p.m., Sanders Theater. Free...
...years, The Crimson has been a financially independent paper, exercising complete editorial control over its staff and story selection. For many years, however, The Harvard Crimson did not officially publish during the summer session, but instead printed The Harvard Summer News (later The Summer Crimson), which was essentially a Summer School-funded paper printed by The Crimson as a money-making venture. In 1971, Summer School officials, in an attempt to intimidate Crimson editors who had been engaged in vehement criticism of the University administration, withdrew that funding. Since that day, the summer issues of The Crimson have been totally...
...rehearsal room at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, rows of little female heads glisten in the sun, their chins just making it up to the sill. They are lucky children, for they are watching New York City Ballet Choreographer George Balanchine rehearse his newest principal dancer, Mikhail Baryshnikov. The session is long and hard, and it is going very well. Baryshnikov leaps into the whimsical salutes of Stars and Stripes. He and the choreographer pause to discuss some points, speaking in Russian-a common language for both. Later, Baryshnikov, 30, whips through a fast, intricate sequence from Rubies. He repeats...