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...Harvard swept all four opponents in the Harvard Invitational. The Crimson ended the Invitational on a five game winning streak, beating non-league opponents Vermont and Manhattan twice. Harvard also proved victorious in an Ancient Eight match-up, edging Dartmouth...
Many observers had predicted that the tidal wave of conservatism which swept the nation last November would filter down to Cambridge this year and finally shift the balance of power on the City Council...
Like all ideals, Postman's suggestions will be difficult to implement Yet his sincere conviction in the potential for change is both infections and inspiring. The End of Education deserves to be read by students as well as educators Swept up in a wave of pre-professional zeal we quickly forget that education can have a purpose in itself. This book provides hope that schooling can be, as he says not about how to make a living, but how to make...
...following the assassination, the right and the left have come together to discuss and debate how their resentment might have led one Jew to murder another. For a nation that regards its citizens as kin, Rabin's murder evokes the horror of patricide. But while Amir may have been swept up in the rhetoric of the militants, his kind lives not in Hebron but in infamy...
...high-minded way about Ancient Greek culture while some swarthy little person picked your pocket." Then there is Albania, with its blighted trees, hectoring beggars and vandalized shacks of houses. This Third World country in Europe's midst, Theroux notes, "was brutalized, as though a nasty-minded army had swept through, kicking it to bits...