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David B. Lat's insipid ranting about the Association for the Absence of Rabid Moralism ("The Absence of Rational Minds," Feb 10, 1994) is off-base and a blatant example of the Harvard right-wing's lack of a sense of humor...
...Tigers did resume league play last Saturday and avenged an early-season loss to Yale be eking out a 4-2 win, with two goals by junior left wing Ethan Early providing the winning margin. But Princeton (9-5-3, 4-5-3 ECAC) knows that Harvard (11-3-2, 9-2-2 ECAC) looms as a more formidable hurdle than the disappointing cellar-dwelling Bulldogs...
...once-quiet corridors of the archaeology wing of Harvard's own Anthropology department, a Victorian sex farce is unfolding. The colorful characters include a foreign professor with a bawdy sense of humor and seven female graduate students whose dainty ears cannot endure naughty words...
...which Mamie Eisenhower caught her husband with a mistress, then journeyed with Marian Anderson to watch Ike integrate Little Rock, Arkansas; an eerie dream song in which a secretary to the Kennedys envisioned, on her way to the fateful motorcade in Dallas, the events about to unfold; and a wing-walking scene in which Eleanor Roosevelt's alleged lover, Lorena Hickok, bemoaned her paramour's flirtation with Amelia Earhart...
...tremor was sent through U.S.-British relations when Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, was granted a 48- hour visa to visit New York City. There he attended a conference on Northern Ireland and met with groups of supporters. British officials, who opposed President Clinton's decision to allow Adams' visit, were angered that Adams had not explicitly called for an end to I.R.A. violence. Adams repeated his demand that British officials clarify their joint declaration with the Irish government, which promises the I.R.A. a seat at the negotiating table...