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...represent opposing parties, but that hasn't stopped critics from accusing state Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge) of being too similar to the man he hopes to unset this November Republican Gov. William F. Weld...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: BARRETT | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

Gibbs caught McGill off-guard by quickly picking up the ball after a McGill penalty. Gibbs ran to the weakside, drawing the bulk of the unset defense to him, and then passed the ball to Thorndike, who bounced off a tackler and dove into the corner...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Ol' Rival McGill Upends Ruggers, 22-14 | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...Schroeder, who coined the term "Teflon president" to refer to President Reagan and has referred to the announced Democratic contenders as "a bowl of unset Jello," urged her supporters to "build on gains we have made and not lose them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schroeder Decides Against Campaign Run | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

...obvious that disciplinary reform that depends so heavily on unset precedent might not reform much of anything. Whether justice would be served more fully under the new body than it is now cannot be known until the body has heard some cases and thereby written the laws under which students will live. In the meantime, of course, the discipline the new group metes out might appear completely arbitrary to the students before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Discipline | 2/10/1987 | See Source »

...last Friday, the "month of the red eyes" was drawing to its long-prayed-for close on Manhattan's West 53rd Street. The sculpture garden was a wilderness. White birches, still in transplantation shock, were leafing out but not in time; stacks of unset paving stones lay everywhere, amid mounds of builders' sand and the plastic-swaddled silhouettes of old friends: Rodin's Balzac, the art nouveau subway entrance, a giant Claes Oldenburg mouse. All through April the museum's governing triumvirate, consisting of its director, Richard Oldenburg, its chairman, William S. Paley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Revelation on 53rd Street | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

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