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...would think that Harvard had enough computerization and impersonalization to go around, but now I see The Crimson is leading a vanguard to eliminate one of the last vestiges of a personal touch left in the University. I refer to the absence of a room lottery at Eliot House (March 19). One wonders if it is the lack of a lottery which annoys The Crimson or simply the fact that The Crimson refuses to accept anything Eliot House does in its own fashion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Eliot Touch | 3/24/1988 | See Source »

...editors of The Dartmouth Review were getting testy. The readers were bored, Pat Robertson was running amok in the primaries, and things were looking generally sour for Dartmouth's conservative vanguard. Something had to be done...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Racism Revisited at the Review | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

What Syria desires is a maintenance of the status quo, which allows that country to position itself as the leader of the anti-Israeli vanguard, says Mylroie. This status earns Syria recognition and monetary support from Saudi Arabia and the Soviet Union. Mylroie says that to achieve a peace settlement, the U.S. should deemphasize negotiations with Syria and concentrate on talks with such states as Iraq and Jordan, which are more likely to abandon their strong anti-Israel stances...

Author: By Benjamin R. Miller, | Title: Unraveling Middle Eastern Diplomacy | 2/5/1988 | See Source »

...contras has produced congressional charges that his real agenda is a military victory at any cost. Pointing to recent Sandinista concessions, a senior White House official said last week, "I'm afraid the Administration has not done a good job in pointing out that we've been in the vanguard of making these proposals and urging these results." As happened during the U.S.-Soviet arms negotiations that led to last December's treaty, the White House is coming out second best on the public-relations front. Like Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Ortega has learned to curry international favor by responding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America Contra Countdown | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

Bloom is at her most enthusiastic when discussing her work. She calls Modern Drama her "most ambitious project to date" in terms of orchestration and harmony and says she gives her best live performances at the Village Vanguard, her favorite New York City club...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Bloomsday at Harvard | 10/23/1987 | See Source »

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