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...while Crits strive to unite all of those they see as oppressed, some of the people they hope to attract--including some minority student groups--say they don't want to jump on the CLS bandwagon...
...House grill managers held a grand opening for their grill on Monday night, serving up burgers and showing a videotape of the movie "Caddyshack" on the grill's television. Eric J. Bentley '90, one of the students who own and operate the Kirkland grill, emphasizes that grill managers will "strive to maintain our number one status," referring to a survey of house grills conducted last year by The Harvard Independent...
...network correspondents seem embarrassed. "Most of what candidates do is aimed at your television screen," began a Bruce Morton report on the CBS Evening News last week. Campaign appearances are orchestrated for the cameras (George Bush in Boston harbor; everybody in front of the Statue of Liberty), and speechwriters strive for one piquant quote a day aimed at the nightly news (Bush asserts that Michael Dukakis has been "opposed to every new weapon system since the slingshot"). And now come the commercials. The candidates have just released the first of an expected blitz of TV ads: upbeat and "presidential...
Perhaps no trial is greater than the constant and solitary hardening of will. And few champions must strive for it in a solitude as perfect as Jackie Joyner-Kersee's. Four years ago, she narrowly lost the gold medal because a hamstring pull hobbled her in the 800-meter run. Now she has so greatly outdistanced the field in the heptathlon, that epic ordeal in seven acts, that the only rival in the corner of her eye is the memory of her last triumph. Since 1984 she has set the heptathlon world record and bettered it twice; she has shared...
Gorbachev has little choice but to strive to bring the military under tighter control. While the armed forces have long occupied a privileged position in Soviet life, military spending has become a major impediment to Gorbachev's drive to revitalize the economy. Many Western experts estimate that the armed forces consume as much as 17% of the Soviet gross national product (vs. 6% for the U.S.). That comes to roughly $300 billion and places a heavy burden on the country. Observers agree that Gorbachev's restructuring of the civilian economy will not be possible without parallel changes in the military...