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...speech, with Harvard University claiming the moral high ground as the neutral guardian of the rights of the community. And from that high ground, this community will be eldered, some in this community will be purged, and all of us may be bamboozled into accepting the primacy of a sham position-that of fair Harvard the neutral champion of rights...
Disgraceful Sham? Within the Administration's councils, Volpe had fought privately for stronger measures, urging that states be given a deadline to adopt no-fault insurance or face imposition of a federal plan. He was overruled by the White House after Presidential Aide Peter Flanigan listened to objections from insurance industry groups against federal insurance standards. "The department was forced not to retreat but into a near rout," complained Richard J. Barber, a former Deputy Assistant Transportation Secretary. Barber, who resigned late last year, directed the 2½-year, $2,000,000 study that was supposed to form...
...case of the aborted "Project Nassau," Agnew quoted a subcommittee of the House Commerce Commission which reported "The filming of sham events, manipulated of sound tracks, and the like. Underlying the whole activity was the earnest endeavor by a group of dangerous individuals to subvert the laws of the United States...
...Hypnosis, silicone injections, and mysterious processes she calls "diacutaneous fibrolysis" and "aromatotherapy"-all have somehow been fitted into a schedule already jampacked with appointments for facials and pedicures, yoga lessons and gym classes. In The Beautiful People's Beauty Book (McCall; $5.95), Luciana Pignatelli reveals the secrets and sham, pressures and rewards of a lifetime dedicated to pleasing that most demanding, unrelenting, infinitely precious of friends-the mirror...
...termed the peace treaty recently negotiated between the National Student Association (NSA) and the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) of South Vietnam a "sham." and said that the YAF-Thieu treaty would circulate on campuses and in communities in the hopes of counter acting...