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...write to say that I was outraged, though hardly surprised, when President Bok decided to challenge the results of the union representation election and to surround his challenge with high-sounding rhetoric about fairness. Maintaining checklists of voters and escorting prospective supporters to the polls are common practices in every civic election in which I've ever participated. Why is it that what's fair in Cambridge is not fair at Harvard...
...dining hall and grill abound with people you know from a sentence or two. One fellow is sombre because his roommates for some reason surround him on excursions to dinner like agents of the Secret Service. A woman new to the house is beautiful but, in various senses, supposedly inaccessible. A couple virtually makes love, drily, near the pinball machine. Should one decide that they are, in fact, in love, or are they just taking advantage of each other...
Although the fellows are the most obvious beneficiaries of the program, the fellows say the program also helps the University. It serves as living testimony to Harvard's growing involvement in neighboring school systems and helps dispell many of the Ivory Tower myths that surround the school. Blackman calls Harvard "a sort of mystical place with ivy-covered walls down the street," and fellows say that few local teachers consider the University when they think about getting higher degrees...
...Wright and the other 218 congressmen who voted against military aid really willing to trust the Sandinistas' good will? What can they do if the Sandinistas, politically secure at home, renege on their promises to take steps towards democratization and begin to undermine the fragile and fledgling republics that surround them...
...what if the new Radcliffe Quadrangle Ice Project uncannily resembles those cunningly frosted windows with the little silver strips running through them which we all associate with the common bathroom? So what if the thick metal poles which surround the actual chickenwire-and-ice construction lend the whole a surprising resemblance to a whimsical construction site? So what if it's far too cold to visit the whole installation for more than 10 seconds, even when one is fortified with all the hot cider that Cabot House can furnish...