Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard treats its rich alumni well. They get invited to fancy dinners. They get a greater voice in making policy. In short they get more attention. Unfortunately such stroking is needed to keep a modern university running. But Harvard can get by without $50,000 from its most recent graduates. Instead of breeding young fundraising zealots, whose hearts will pound 25 years from now at the sight of green grass, perhaps the University should try to instill some unity among all the diversity...
Youths caught sampling the cocaine were roughed up. The punishment for stealing could be permanent: one Marianna boy returned with mangled fingers. To exact obedience, the brothers sometimes deliberately shorted the boys on the crack that was parceled out for them to sell. When the receipts came up short, the boys were forced to work off their shortages, which kept them in bondage for months at a time. "They ran everything on fear and intimidation," says Birchler...
...last-minute surge bumped the number of amnesty applications to 1.73 million, still far short of the 3 million the Federal Government had expected. Nonetheless, by a vote of 56 to 40, the Senate last week refused to consider an extension of the program...
...Spanish scholar said he expects to teachtwo courses in the fall: a graduate course on theEnlightenment and an undergraduate course on themodern short narrative. He added he will teach aspring graduate course about romanticism and anundergraduate tutorial
...despite the efforts of the actors and crew, The Ruling Class falls short. After all, packaging isn't everything, because after you've peeled off the fancy layers of the production, what's left is something you might want to send back to the store...