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...doesn't hold water. The Office of Career Services (OCS) reports that 86 students are currently studying for credit away from Harvard, compared to 126 last fall. This is only a difference of 40, not the kind of number you'd expect to throw an entire system out of whack...
...hurt that gate was in the title. Watergate. Heaven's Gate. Billy Bathgate. As the production of E.L. Doctorow's best seller went over budget and reportedly out of whack, bathgate is what Hollywood figured the Disney studio would take -- in red ink -- when the film finally opened. Its summer premiere was postponed; last month a new ending was shot (then discarded); stories surfaced of clashes between director Robert Benton and his star, Dustin Hoffman. Oh, and Bruce Willis was in it, so it must...
...thought it was pretty cool," said onlooker Jamie W. Billett '95. "But I was a little disappointed because I thought they should have had slabs like in Monty Python, so they could whack their heads as they marched," he added...
...grim scene. Due to years of optimistic forecasting and late-night compromising, the budget is more out of whack than ever. In a desperate annual message, the president says it is time to stop spending beyond the nation's means. "We don't have any money....Let's shock everybody. Let's tell the truth...
...Perm. Many in the crowd, pressed against the closed plate-glass doors, have been waiting more than four hours just for this moment. A flatbed truck pulls up with a precious cargo of cigarettes. As two men begin unloading, the impatient shoppers surge forward. There is a resounding whack. A young policeman, standing in the truck, hits his billy club against the wooden side panel in warning. "He probably would like to bash a few heads," mutters a middle-aged woman watching resignedly from the sidewalk. "What torture they put us through...