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HARVARD'S RIGHT WING has opened a new front in the effort to subvert attention from the divestment issue. In the most recent issue of the think-tank-subsidized Harvard Salient, editor Thomas Firestone '86 calls on the University's governing Corporation to divest from USSR-related firms, and in so doing to cease "bankrolling the Kremlin." But what the Salient, the Republican Club, and individual conservatives are really trying to do is confuse the issue with meaningless comparisons which create a false reductio ad absurdam...
...tank: a shallow pool with a cement strip, slides and oarlocks set in the center. A tank allows a crew to practice as a unit in the winter...
...story on the game with Western Union. He had a basic all-purpose alibi format always at the ready. Since then he has revamped the marching band, had a new 20,000-person stadium named in his honor, produced more than 200 future professional football players (among them Paul ("Tank") Younger, Willie Davis, Willie Brown) and not had to use many alibis. Last week Robinson, 66, reached his greatest milestone. After leading the Tigers to victory over Prairie View at the Cotton Bowl, the plain-talking sharecropper's son from Jackson, La., was 324-106-15, passing Bear Bryant...
Samore, who now lives in California, said he was only aware that the Rand Corporation, a California think-tank, had provided money for the book...
...people's House" is becoming richer and richer. Figures reported last week by New York City's Democracy Project, a liberal think tank, and the Public Interest Research Group, a similar institution in Washington, D.C., showed that the wealth of the 43 new members elected last year to the House of Representatives was almost four times greater than that reported by the 77 freshmen elected in 1978, after accounting for inflation. On the average, each of the 43 Representatives had assets of $251,296, vs. $41,358 for the 1978 group. Among the new lawmakers are as many...