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Alex: That's correct. The Crimson had recovered from a 10-point deficit to threaten the Big Green cushion in the waning moments of the game. But unlike Patrick Ewing and his friends, or Randall Cunningham and his cohorts, Coach Roby and his crew could not quite finish the effort...
...Harvard does not weigh in as a heavy," says State Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge). "It never tries to threaten passage of major legislation...
...says Barrett, Harvard is not one to issue ultimatums--in part because it does not have the same kind of leverage that for-profit institutions of comparable size possess. Other large corporations, Barrett says, may threaten to pack up and leave the area--taking valuable jobs and tax dollars with them--if their demands aren't met. Harvard does not have that option...
Bush's only idea for the future is to save face. This policy may lack vision and courage, but it doesn't threaten future elections...
...with the Pentagon looking for ways to trim its budget, U.S. defense policy includes a caveat: the West must be prepared for the danger that Gorbachev will be overthrown; he might be replaced by a retrograde Soviet leadership that will once again -- that is the key phrase: once again -- threaten the rest of the world with military intimidation if not conquest...