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When the new Harvard president takes office, ideally the "candidate" who has been a member of the Harvard community from its "pre-Core" days to the present, we advise him or her not to wipe clean the undergraduate curricular slate but rather to inventory the strengths and successes of the current Core program, in theory and in practice, and to build upon them. The Core is an indispensable feature of the Harvard undergraduate experience and must be preserved...
...present, of course, the phone-line/cable-line/satellite race for world market share is far from won. And 10 million subscribers makes DirecTV the biggest satellite TV provider in the U.S. but still a boutique business when it comes to all the TV sets in the land. But Murdoch, whose slate of Fox TV products currently rides the backs of rival delivery systems, is eagerly looking for a friendly platform from which he can pump as many Fox channels into American homes - with their due dose of placement and promotion - as he can dream up. And DirecTV fits that bill...
Judging from the flash bulbs continually snapping around the Yard, one might guess that the most distinctive features of the Harvard landscape were an infamous bronze toe and an army of friendly squirrels. Less excitable residents might point elsewhere: to venerable architecture in the form of slate-roofed, red-brick first-year houses, antique classrooms, wide stone archways, marble staircases, heavy doors, high windows and ubiquitous commemorative plaques. Others might cite the iron fence circling the Yard and its largely closed gates, inviting the rest of the world to look but not touch...
...private security guards from Israel and running a $30 billion business that brokers everything from oil and gold to sugar and grain. Switzerland refused to extradite him. But now that point is moot. Thanks to Clinton, the billionaire who could have faced years in prison suddenly has a clean slate...
Clemente leads the team in scoring and rebounding and his clutch shooting will certainly determine the outcome of this weekend's slate of games...