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...Endowment is an upstart alternative to the traditional class gift fund. It holds contributions to Harvard in escrow until the University divests of its holdings in companies that do business in South Africa or the United Nations lifts its condemnation of apartheid, whichever comes first. If neither happens before the year 2003 rolls around, the Endowment will be distributed to local charities...
Although various source have confirmed the Lampoon's involvement in the booklet, members of the Lampoon staff continue to deny any connection with their upstart "rival." However, they do concede that disgruntled Lampoon compers may be at fault...
...Hispanics and Asians has ( given rise to dozens of new publications. The U.S. has six Spanish-language dailies, with a combined circulation of 325,000. There is a newspaper war of sorts in New York City, home to both the venerable El Diario/La Prensa (circ. 70,000) and the upstart Noticias del Mundo (circ. 57,000), owned by the publishing arm of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. In Los Angeles, La Opinion (60,000) competes against Noticias' West Coast edition (30,000). The Midwest is served by Chicago's El Manana Daily (45,000). Miami's Diario...
Yale knocked out Princeton last year, and Harvard will look to do the same to the Tigers Sunday afternoon. In the preliminary heats, the Crimson's only challenge besides itself will be upstart Cornell...
...league-landing Crimson (7-3 overall, 3-0 Ivies), found itself down, 2-0, after the upstart Bulldogs knocked off Harvard's top two players...