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Nancy Riggings, an older, quiet, poor Black woman from Fort Worth had a horrible Sunday. She had been unable to register a single voter in three hours because everyone along her turf had already registered. She was lost in an unfamiliar part of Dallas for two hours before an ACORN search party managed to rescue her from the heat...
Fellow Robert G. Stone Jr. '45 says that when the Corporation faces an unfamiliar issue, its first response is to consult with as many people around the University as possible. "Very seldom we say unilaterally seven people can make the best decisions, because very often we have to seek advice from as many people as we can. We don't know all the answers," he says. This process was evident most recently when the University considered a proposal from Professor of Biochemistry Mark Ptashne to set up a profit-making genetic engineering company within the University. After extensive consultations inside...
Shemie, who supports a balanced budget amendment, ran into trouble of his own on the tax issues last week, when he said on a radio talk show that he is unfamiliar with major 1983 legislation that raised Social Security taxes to bail out the ailing program...
...basketball teams, so the reasoning went, might look invincible. But they were pickup squads, assembled in March and still learning one another's moves, matched against seasoned teams, in some cases professionals. They would play on the slightly different international court, under different rules; the men would face unfamiliar zone defenses that would force them to shoot from outside rather than dazzle with dunkmanship. Indeed, before the Games opened, former Marquette Coach Al McGuire, now a basketball analyst for NBC, bet U.S. Men's Coach Bobby Knight a dinner that his charges would lose. Said McGuire...
...calm settled over Cambridge towards the middle of the week, as what was previously novelty became routine: Wells Fargo guards on Plympton Street, a large net over the windows of the Quincy dining hall, and thousands of unfamiliar people crowding into Harvard Stadium...