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Half the estimated $100 million worth of BOSNIAN RELIEF SHIPMENTS sent to Sarajevo this year have been seized by Serbian troops. U.N. officials have allowed the thefts to take place. Heavily armed Serbian forces surrounding Sarajevo airport skim a large share of every relief shipment as a form of safe-passage payment, carefully selecting all the meat, telephone gear, fire- fighting equipment as well as the newsprint being donated for an independent paper...
...facility] will skim the demand from the weight facilities in the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis building," said Director of Intramurals and Associate Director of Athletics John E. Wentzell...
Well we've sunk just about as low as we can. If this entire issue takes you more than fifteen minutes to read, you need the Bureau of Study Council's seminar on skim reading. Virtually a complete issue of blurbs, from our Cultural Elite list to the Crimewatch page. Blurbs, yes, but serious blurbs. For Chrissakes, Lawrence, Mass. is burning down in a wave of arsons and after a year and a half the two full-time cops on the Mary Joe Frug case haven't any idea who murdered her. So give it a year. Next year, send...
...PICTURES, of course, only skim the surface, and a choice based on image alone is likely to backfire. George Bush learned this lesson in 1988 when he targeted a young, attractive running mate--who unleashes a stream of garbled English every time he opens his mouth. Dan Quayle seemed to follow the recipe for media appeal; he had the hair, the smile and the political family. Despite the calculations, something went awry...
...learned how to get along in big, anonymous classes (find a good section, skim all the reading and avoid personality conflicts with your teaching fellows); how to work within the Harvard bureaucracy (know deadlines, find the right person to deal with and be persistent); and how to remove as many cereal boxes as possible from the Union (bring friends and be creative...