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Coll realizes that Harvard students will emerge in positions of leadership and wishes to expose them to the reality of poverty in America. He believes students from "across the river" provide an invaluable model for the kids, who need an incentive to work, a goal to strive for. But justifying activism is such a tired, tawdry subject, as though doing something for someone else were a new concept...
...Phillips Brooks House, we strive to help people, particularly from low income groups, gain control of their lives. We believe that Harberger's brand of economics, and all that it stands for, contradicts all our beliefs and objectives. We join, then, with other campus groups to protest Harvard's decision and to clarify that we will continue to oppose it. Mirai Chatterjee for the Cabinet of PBHA
Meanwhile, wife Nancy--extolled by the Manchester Union Leader as the woman we all should strive to be--has contributed some complimentary remarks of her own about the "white folks." The latest University of New Hampshire poll has Reagan four percentage points behind Bush, and indicates that the gap between the two men is growing steadily. The comments are adding to a new perception: Reagan as a reeling, slipping old man, about to give way to the new, tweed-capped Superman who spent some time in Peking...
Brooks once said his team played "sophisticated pond hockey." Whatever its name, the style of the Americans is oddly schizophrenic. They ride players into the boards and forecheck -an oafish game. On offense, on the other hand, they strive -when they can remember their orders-to practice pinpoint passing. The weakness of this hybrid approach showed up in a big game against the Czechs. With a one-man advantage after a Czech penalty, the Americans got too clever by half: they fecklessly passed the puck back and forth for 1 min. 40 sec., until time ran out. All the while...
...told Dryden right away that I was going to the best, but you should strive...