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Paths dissect Boston Common; at the widest point on any trail, you're maybe 20 yards from another of the walkways. But only a few are wide enough to accomodate a police car, and these are far less populated than the others, for the police do not like people gathering in their park. "You should have been here five minutes ago," one young man tells two others as they stroll up the path to his bench. "Motherfuckin cops took a case of beer off me, and all I got was one can." An hour later, with a replenished supply...
Although the delegations which perform best do receive prizes, competition plays a small role. Elizabeth Pierpont '81, a member of the Rumanian delegation, said "It's not a debate tournament at all." The model U.N. emphasizes cooperation, as skills for causing and negotiating come into widest use, she added...
Much of the Met's work at its New York base remains excellent, of course, and it continues to offer the widest variety of any North American opera house. But the moves towards television and a full-blooded tour hold the prospect of a radically different future for the nation's premier company --one in which talented casts and good productions are lavished on televised operas and those destined for the national tour, and the venerable New York opera house languishes, relying on its national income and the docility of its audiences instead of consistent production standards to keep...
DIED. Edgar Buchanan, 76, veteran character actor in nearly 100 films, most of them grade-B westerns, who won his widest recognition as Uncle Joe in TV's Petticoat Junction; of complications following brain surgery; in Palm Desert, Calif...
Harvard is known for its diversity-- especially among its students and individual houses--a diversity the administration often doesn't recognize. The Student Assembly was created to ensure the right of all students to the widest possible participation in an unrestricted flow of information. By their very nature political parties in the Student Assembly would silence many divergent individual opinions. They key points to have in mind...