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...Harvard is an institution ostensibly devoted to the acquisition of knowledge, not capital. Surely there must be a point when the Corporation, President Neil L. Rudenstine and their minions at Harvard Management Company can look down from their mountains of gold, see us in the distance and toss some spare change toward today's students...
...opening ceremonies of the Nagano Winter Games were as lyrical and spare as you might expect in a stadium shaped like a cherry blossom yet named, not memorably, the "Stadium for Opening and Closing Ceremonies." Helium doves fluttered prettily, Japan's Emperor and Empress clapped gamely for 40 minutes of parading athletes, and a large number of the contestants were dressed like secret policemen...
Japanese reader Sachiko Himeno wrote to TIME describing how, in order to spare the environment, she lived in a machine-free world, washing her laundry by hand and doing without a TV, air conditioner, stereo and vacuum cleaner [LETTERS, Jan. 19]. By contrast, I am surrounded by the machines that help destroy our environment. But as a single parent living with a seven-year-old son in a one-room apartment, I find that appliances help me a lot. I am a nurse who works long hours. I don't have time to do my laundry by hand. I prepare...
...buffet was catered by the Peach Farm Restaurant in Chinatown, and courses represented a range of Asian dishes, from King Tou's Spare Ribs to Singapore Style Rice Noodles...
...basically been during our spare time that we've been doing this," explained Josh M. Sharfstein '91, who is a former Crimson executive. "We went through stacks and stacks of articles, and picked the best...