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...refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of students' calls for a real hand in determining Harvard's investment policy, or when Bok and Dean Rosovsky smugly dismiss students' attempts to gain a real say in the formulation of their own curriculum, the silence is an echo. Granted, Bok is a smoother man than Pusey--as the Corporation and Overseers realized when they named him, he is the sort to rely on calm words, rather than police violence, to settle confrontations--but he has shown little more sensitivity to student concerns than did his predecessor. The echoes of 1969 grow louder with...
...refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of students' calls for a real hand in determining Harvard's investment policy, or when Bok and Dean Rovosky smugly dismiss students' attempts to gain a real say in the formulation of their own curriculum, the silence is an echo. Granted, Bok is a smoother man than Pusey--as the Corporation and Overseers realized when they named him, he is the sort to rely on calm words, rather than police violence, to settle confrontations--but he has shown little more sensitivity to student concerns than did his predecessor. The echoes of 1969 grow louder with...
...thing is that the offense is improving. We were able to break with the ball. We scored three fast break goals. We moved the ball better, smoother. I don't think we are going to lose on this field," co-captain Jamie Egasti said after the game...
...breaststroke provided the meet's closest race. Pat Jakobsen looked smoother than he has all season and nipped the Netherlands' Ronald Hond by two-hundreths of a second...
However stormy the Navy's military and financial future may be, it now enjoys smoother sailing in one important area: morale. Though there are still some problems with drugs, alcoholism and a high desertion rate, the service has recovered smartly from the troubled early 1970s, when a series of violent racial clashes revealed an armed force at war with itself...