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Dowds terms the University's civic outreach program a policy of "rural pacification," designed simply to smooth the ruffled feathers of Cambridge citizens. "[Harvard's representatives to the community] are all extremely good at what they do...and they are all extremely determined that what Harvard wants out of the situation will not be denied," he says...
Indeed, observers say today's smooth and easygoing lobbyists must roll up their shirt sleeves and take a hardline approach. Given increasingly scarce funding and intensified competition for those dollars, Bok and other university presidents, they say, will have no other choice...
...Harvard knotted the game on a score set up by the Crimson third line's smooth passing. Tim Burke raced down the left flank, outskating Golden Knights defender Mikko Tavi across the blue line, and slipped the puck across to Steve Flomenhoft, who backhanded the puck by Clarkson netminder Chris Rogles to even the game...
...inspector of milk-carton dates, even for a second, the impression is immediately erased when Joni Mitchell's new album, Night Ride Home, kicks in with the title cut. The instrumentation is spare, the melody light and tight as a fresh-spun web, the lyrics casual, conversational and smooth as a stone in a Zen garden. It takes a good deal of practical education to make something as intricate as her music seem so simple. And -- yes, all right -- so fresh...
...bosses, bureaucrats, the occasional serial killer -- with an elaborate respect whose irony shows only at the cutting edges. When an asylum director sneers that Starling has wasted his time, she replies, "Yessir, but then I would've missed the pleasure of your company, sir." That second sir is the smooth stiletto...