Word: straw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...awaiting word of the start of the crucial four-mile race. On the banks, men in three-piece business suits and varsity ties read. The New York Times, while children climbed trees searching for a better view. An elegantly antique Radcliffe grad in a white lace shirt and a straw hat, smoking a Tiparillo, waited patiently under a tree while two former Harvard competitors from a race long past reminisced about their own experiences at Red Top, Harvard's special boathouse on the Thames. Paint-brush wielding students decorated the rocks with...
...content with having produced his eleven books of nonfiction, he still hopes to complete a novel on Lorenzo the Magnificent, which he has been researching for more than a decade. In his book The Straw and the Grain, he wrote, "If I had the time, I would write the history of the rivers I have known." Journalist Paul Guimard calls him "a great writer." Literary Critic Bertrand Poirot-Delpech rates him with Léon Blum and De Gaulle as the most literary of French politicians: "Each phrase of Mitterrand, even spoken, bears the mark of someone who has never...
Current GSA president Sarah E. Yedinsky '83 agreed. "The Yearbook's article is one more example that gays' presence is not recognized," she said, adding, "It was the final straw...
...Faculty this week gave the Dowling Report yet another boost. In two non-binding straw votes Wednesday. Faculty members voiced overwhelming support for the plan to reorganize the structure of College governance. The Faculty will vote on specific legislation regarding the plan next fall, after committees working on implementation of the new system complete their work. The vote this week demonstrates what Dean Rosovsky called the Faculty's "benign" attitude toward the Dowling plan, which many Faculty members said would improve the efficiency and responsibility of College government...
...basis of sexual orientation. Instead, the council this week agreed to discourage harassment against gay people on campus and to reaffirm non-discrimination in admissions policy. Although the council took no formal vote on the proposal--for which GSA members lobbied at the council's meeting last week--a straw vote showed broad support among council members for including a statement in material distributed to potential applicants to the College saying that Harvard does not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation in admissions...