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Intramural sports are for everyone and therein lies the beauty. The interhouse games cut across the accepted stereotypes and boundaries that separate Harvard into self-contained groups. They give you a chance to see your peers outside of classes, meals, and social functions. Somehow, it's comforting to know that the guy or girl you thought pretentious or maybe dull loves to play volleyball--just like...

Author: By John Beilenson, | Title: Splendor on the Grass | 10/16/1981 | See Source »

...cultural confusions, they carried with them a barely conscious expectation, a sort of buried genetic code. When they chose to do so, when the babies started arriving, they could transform themselves into Ozzie and Harriet and find houses like the ones their parents owned-or much nicer, maybe-and therein comfortably get on with the American dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Downsizing an American Dream | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...pores." Even the hard, grim stonewall of the Nixon White House eventually crumbled. Richard Nixon, in fact, is a fascinating case study in the psychology of confession. The "Papyrus of Nu" from the 18th dynasty of Egypt records what scholars have come to call the negative confessions. Therein the Egyptian advises the gods of all the crimes he has not committed during his life ("I have not polluted myself... I have not carried away milk from the mouths of children" and so on) and concludes in an ecstasy of self-exoneration: "I am pure. I am pure." During...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why and When and Whether to Confess | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

Most analysts feel that the Soviets could accept a certain amount of pluralism in Poland as long as a strong party retained a firm grip on the reins. But therein lies another political hazard-for the Polish party itself seems bent on reversing Leninist orthodoxy. In a watershed decision two weeks ago, Party Boss Stanislaw Kania bowed to rank-and-file demands and announced that delegates to July's party congress would be elected by secret ballot from an unlimited list of candidates. Until now, most delegates were chosen by the party leadership according to the Leninist principle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: A Conditional Reprieve | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...talk centered mostly on the ceiling (the leaks therein caused a rearrangement of basketball practice this week), the color (a green that is most charitably described as "institutional"), but mostly the stairs--ah yes, the stairs...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: IAB Farewell | 3/4/1981 | See Source »

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