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...tactic worked, as the Big Red flustered the young Harvard team into throwing the ball away, leading directly to four Cornell tallies...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Laxmen Get a Big Red Scare; Crimson Falls to Cornell, 12-5 | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...wily Deng, 82, seemed to be using his lifelong tactic of playing off the major political factions against one another in order to stay on top. After Hu's removal, the Chinese press continued to hold Deng up as the leading opponent of "bourgeois liberalization" -- the adoption of Western values that was the main sin of both Hu and the students. Deng, according to a party document made available to Western reporters last week, had been an early critic of the ex-party chief's six major "errors," one of which was that he encouraged too much buying of consumer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Battle of the Octogenarians | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...housing aspect to the bid will make it more attractive to the community and put community pressure on the St. Paul's to select the offer. However, given that under Harvard's proposal St. Paul's vice president for administration would fund the low-income housing, such a pressure tactic is contemptable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Contemptible Bid | 3/6/1987 | See Source »

...Tufts has rail-roaded Ian. It is a travesty what the administration is doing with this thing," said Nan M. Glickman, a member of the Tufts Political Action Coalition (TPAC). Calling Kremer a liar, she said, "is a diversionary tactic. The administration, by making him seem like a liar, is trying to discredit him and the left on campus...

Author: By Brandon Bradkin, | Title: Tufts Pres.: Student Lied About Racial Attack | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...work that went into the design of this set piece, as stunning a room as you will see in the great palaces of Europe. Conklin was also responsible for the cunning costumes, which express the personality of the characters much more stylishly than Ribman's autistic dialogue. One tactic for surviving Sweettable is to turn off your mind and float into a visual reverie...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, EDITOR EMERITUS | Title: STAGE | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

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