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Colorful posters, stickers, buttons and a throng of students in front of the Widener steps heralded Coming Out at Harvard Day yesterday...
...commemorating the 25th anniversary of women moving into the Yard, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 announced a technically minor, but symbolically major change in the text of our school song, "Fair Harvard." The first line, which used to read, "Fair Harvard! thy sons to thy jubilee throng," now is as follows, "Fair Harvard! we join in thy jubilee throng." The use of the inclusive, non gender-specific pronoun in the song which is sung at almost every major Harvard event is, of course, long overdue, but that's what the Celebration of Women at Harvard was about...
...twirling line dancers stomp through a traditional peasant rite. Doctors in grubby white coats offer herbal medicines, acupuncture or blood-pressure tests. Vendors proffer savory kabobs or key chains. Children rent old-fashioned roller skates for a few yuan, while their elder brothers play badminton without any nets. The throng does not disperse until the blazing phosphorus lights dim near midnight...
...Socialist nemesis, Strasbourg Mayor (now Communications Minister) Catherine Trautmann. But it was in the town of Mantes-la-Jolie, where his daughter was running for parliament, that Le Pen really outdid himself. Taunted by a pro-Socialist crowd, Le Pen leaped out of his car and tore into the throng with fists flying. He violently pushed local mayor and Socialist candidate Annette Peulvast-Bergeal into a wall, shouting, "We're fed up with you people, don't you know that?" Such storm-trooper tactics have not deterred growing numbers of voters from backing the Front. In the past two years...
...Fair Harvard, the daughters in jubilee throng." The two versions are sung simultaneously. The divergence of three syllables takes no more than two seconds, beat and meter match perfectly, and the song goes on. The two versions unite like a marriage, not jarring the ears like the dozens of other suggestions...