Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editor-in-chief of Padan Aram, I would like to congratulate you on your news feature article, "It's Publish or Perish for Student Magazines," for bringing up an important issue. However the article largely missed the point. Why do Harvard publications, especially literary magazines, have such a short life? Funding for such student projects can come principally from two sources: the Undergraduate Council or the Office for the Arts. The Office for the Arts, although generally kind and generous, is mostly interested in funding flashy, one-time-event, art projects. Nothing so regular and ordinary, with certifiable artistic merit...
Young was honored for his performance in Harvard's 10-0 rout of Dartmouth on December 12, during which he tallied three short-handed goals in a 49-second span--a new NCAA record...
...subject of speculation. The management, says Kevin Murphy, who follows the industry for the Morgan Stanley investment firm, wants "to get this thing to be a viable enterprise and sell it to a major airline. They are not in it for the long run." But at least for the short term, the Braniff logo is going to become a familiar sight on U.S. runways...
That assessment, if anything, understates the level of disillusionment. Soviet products that have often been in short supply, like meat and butter, are scarcer than ever this year. In the Russian Republic, the Soviet region that is home to about half the country's population, meat available at state stores is so scarce that 1 out of every 3 consumers obtains a ration card to ensure a supply. Now, however, everyday items like good shoes and toilet paper are also missing from the shelves. Shoppers in Moscow are queuing for laundry detergent, and last week the capital was virtually bereft...
Even if a nation were caught making chemical weapons, who could enforce the rules, short of military action? Would the guilty government dismantle its own facility -- particularly if the plant also produced agricultural and pharmaceutical products? Perhaps more to the point, would other nations agree to halt the lucrative export of the component parts? As the Reagan Administration learned in its dealings with Iran, it is hard enough for nations to abide by an arms embargo, let alone enforce...