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...anticipation of this problem, the Committee on House and College Life (COHL) decided in January to limit block size to sixteen, down from twenty. House masters had advocated a limit of eight in November, "as a step towards making the composition of the houses more random...

Author: By David J. Andorsky, | Title: Diversifying With an Axe | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

When the final race was completed and the last swimmer touched the wall, the Crimson had won eleven of the sixteen events of the night. In five of these events, Crimson swimmers finished...

Author: By Jill L. Brenner, | Title: W. Swimming Dismantles Yale Squad | 1/13/1995 | See Source »

...Some of their covers (Young Blood, Johnny B. Goode) sound sluggish, anemic next to the originals. But Paul's raveups -- his countertenor superscreaming on Long Tall Sally or the understandably obscure 1956 rocker Clarabella -- still have a clear pulse. John leads a happy assault on Sweet Little Sixteen. And George is the musical star; he lays down plenty of inventive improvs on his lead guitar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Becoming the Beatles | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...Moving from twenty to sixteen is essentially not doing anything," Jewett said...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Masters Push for Randomization | 12/7/1994 | See Source »

...court in the northern city of Medan sentenced labor leader Muchtar Pakpahan to three years in prison. Pakpahan is the sixth official of the Indonesian Prosperity Trade Union to be convicted in connection with workers' riots that wrecked several factories and blocks of shops in Medan earlier this year. Sixteen of his colleagues are still on trial in what looks to many like an attempt to bust a union that the authoritarian Indonesian government views as dangerously independent. U.S. officials "deplored" Pakpahan's sentence and said Clinton would discuss the case and other "problems in the human- rights area," including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business First, Freedom Second | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

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