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Brian Dowling, the 1968 Eli quarterback and captain, disputed the Crimson's account of the struggle. "It was a tie, despite Harvard's arithmetic," he said. "It was Murphy's law in reverse, from Yale's standpoint," he recalled ruefully...
...that the Israeli election has been held and local voters have returned our staunchly pro-Israel delegation to Congress, it should be obvious just how insignificant Tuesday's vote on Question 5 is from the standpoint of what will actually happen between Israel and the Palestinians in the near future...
Fitzwater said the main purpose of the meeting from the U.S. standpoint would be to "ensure that the momentum and continuity of the arms control talks are extended and...reaffirm the relationship between the general secretary and the new President of the United States...
Harvard's artistic community also gave her plenty of leeway to do what she liked, she says. Citing an atmosphere that allowed such inventive talents as director Peter Sellars '80 to flourish, Woods says Harvard "certainly made me very aware of, from a lyric standpoint, just how far I could get pushed and still have my creativity come forward...
...Latin American's turn. When the movie industry limits its portayal of the Latin American, the audience observes him with this same limited perspective. This negative standpoint becomes the perspective from which the entire Latin American community is viewed. An audience sees a stereotypical Latin American character and assumes that all Latin Americans are just a bunch of drug-dealing criminals...