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Witness Harvard's co-sponsorship of a plan to build new radio telescopes in Arizona, easing the heavy burden on existing astronomical observatories. Quite a salutory investment, you might think, wise and forward-looking. That is, unless you believe that a good project facilitated with reprehensible means is unacceptable and constitutes a betrayal of the University's responsibility to act as a moral example...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Waffling Hurts Squirrels | 10/31/1990 | See Source »

...score points," Lazarre-Whitesaid. "We've got to move the ball. We've got tomake sure we're in the right place,assignment-wise. Anything you can think of, we'vegot...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Gridders Can't Turn Back Page | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

Hornstein characterizes Rauch as "a very easy person to get along with--I've never seen him lose his temper. Personality-wise we are very different," he adds. "I would have a much more difficult time working with a clone of myself...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Wu, | Title: Heading the Council: Complement or Conflict? | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...level on his horn and improving every day." Bass player Milt Hinton, 80, says Marsalis "stacks up miles ahead of" such past greats as Armstrong and Henry ("Red") Allen in mastery of the instrument. "But he doesn't yet have as much creativity blues-wise and dirt- and funk-wise as they had because he hasn't had to live it." Marsalis' main limitation -- one he shares with the entire youth brigade -- is the lack so far of a truly original creative voice. Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, 73, puts it succinctly: "You don't see no Charlie Parkers coming along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wynton Marsalis: Horns of Plenty | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...Wise public policy doesn't fix kids," Sizer said. "It allows kids to move at their own rates," he said...

Author: By Katherine C. Mayer, | Title: Sizer Calls for School Reform | 10/20/1990 | See Source »

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