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...Boks' letter represents an attempt to tip the election away from the three pro-divestment candidates who gained spots on the ballot by petition and toward their competition, which the University invited to run. Harvard--more accurately Derek Bok--either believes the "Company of Educated Men and Women" need to be told how to exercise their franchise or that Harvard has failed in its educational mission...
...court last week also okayed official spying in the sky. Dante Ciraolo had high double fences around his backyard in Santa Clara, Calif. Even so, police acting on a tip were able to spot the 73 marijuana plants growing in the yard--by flying overhead in a chartered plane. Dow Chemical Co. had even more elaborate security precautions at its plant in Midland, Mich. So the Environmental Protection Agency also sent up an airplane, to get pictures as part of an inspection of the site. In two 5-4 decisions, the Supreme Court ruled that neither search from the skies...
...Waugh's scapegrace Basil Seal (Black Mischief) is based in part on an aristocrat who might have arrived from the set of early Monty Python. As a houseguest, Basil Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Fourth Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, liked to borrow a pound from the butler and later tip him with it. The title character of V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas is a version of the author's father, a West Indian journalist. Seepersad Naipaul publicly labeled the rite of goat sacrifice superstitious. He subsequently received a note in Hindi ordering him to perform the sacrifice...
After his informal address, candidate George Bachrach, one of twelve vying for the House of Representatives seat of Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill Jr., stayed the night in the shanties at the invitation of student protestors who are hoping to gather support for the continued presence of the structures in the Yard...
Roosevelt, who is the grandson of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, called his chances of winning the seat vacated by House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill "very good. The campaign is going well. My name recognition has tripled...