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...administration losses over further subtleties of student life in maintaining that we are all just generic Harvard students. Year after year, there is uncorroborated grumbling by minority athletes that minorities just aren't fielded equally on some squads. Countless students report slight and not-so-slight insensitivity toward minority students by section leaders. Incidents like these, if and when they happen, happen to individual students not because they are Harvard students but because of their affiliation with a group...
These differences shaped the negotiating technique I developed in the days ahead, and eventually opened up the road to an agreement. I would draft a proposal I considered reasonable, take it to Sadat for quick approval or slight modification, and then spend hours or days working on the same point with the Israeli delegation. Sometimes, in the end, the change of a word or phrase would satisfy Begin...
...pragmatic liberal, Eckart supports a nuclear freeze and handgun control. He has been pressing hardest on the unemployment issue, telling voters he favors federally funded job-training programs. Eckart is believed to have a slight edge, but the race is very close. The district's congressional seat has been in Republican hands for 20 years, but that has been largely due to the popularity of Representative J. William Stanton, 58, who is retiring because of poor health. Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 34% to 21%. Says State Republican Chairman Michael Colley: "It's a horse race...
...they will perform in college. In addition, the yearly aggregate result has come to be regarded as a leading indicator of how well U.S. high schools are doing. Says George Hanford, president of the College Entrance Examination Board, which sponsors the SAT: "This year's score increase, however slight, combined with last year's steady state, is an encouraging sign that the serious efforts by educators, parents and students to improve the quality of education are starting to take effect...
Most likely the habit of applauding is responsible for another phenomenon peculiar to Harvard hissing. This one, Thernstrom reflects gives proceedings "a slight element of spice." While most professors share Thernstrom's benevolent acceptance of good natured hissing. "If one tells a bad pun, one deserves to be hissed," John L. Clive, Kenan Professor of History and Literature asserts many students feel hissing has no place in the lecture hall. "It's very disruptive," says Tracy Rouse. "Students hiss down questions if they don't like them like this morning in Chem...