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...definitely coming back to Harvard," Drury says with a slight touch of nostalgia and anticipation...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: On the Road to Albertville With Harvard's Ted Drury | 11/13/1991 | See Source »

...important event in American culture. One as theatrically bold and intellectually subtle as The Ride Down Mt. Morgan is reason to shout for joy. Robustly funny, full of fantasy and hallucination yet easy to follow, it is free of the world-weary, elegiac tone of the four slight one-acts that had been Miller's sole stage output in the previous decade. At 76, the playwright has recaptured the vigorous voice and zest of middle age and has found a fresh, indeed engagingly oddball, way to revisit his accustomed theme of how to assess rugged individualism -- as personal integrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arthur Miller, Old Hat at Home, Is a London Hit | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

...report, the committee attributed the slight decline in the value of Harvard's South Africa-related holdings to the University's sale of some shares in three of these companies...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: Harvard Policy On South Africa May Change | 11/5/1991 | See Source »

...sound and look like an educational revolution, but it sure won't quack like one. In reality, the proposals, a slight revision of Alexander's own America 2000 strategy, are empty, at times contradictory, and overall an ineffective recipe for improving schools...

Author: By Jason M. Solomon, | Title: Massachusetts 2000 | 10/29/1991 | See Source »

...final statistics gave Harvard a slight edge in shots (32-23), but more telling were the lopsided numbers for the second half, in which the dominant Crimson forced 10 corners, and fired 18 shots to Princeton's five...

Author: By Joanne Nelson, | Title: Stickwomen Play to 2-2 Tie | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

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