Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone in South Africa is classified by race, placed at birth into one of nine racial categories that determine where he can live and work. But people can have their classification changed if they can prove they were put in a wrong group. The result is apartheid's own crazy game of musical chairs, as illustrated last week by Home Affairs Minister Stoffel Botha's announcement of last year's racial reclassifications...
...remarks before addressing the Harvard Model Congress yesterday. Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 blasted the Tower Commission report saying its conclusions about his participation in the Iran-contra affair were "completely wrong." Weinberger also said that he and Secretary of State George F. Shultz repeatedly advised President Reagan to abandon the arms-for-hostages policy...
...purpose of an answering machine--no matter how amusing--is still to take messages. Good messages tend to elicit responses from callers, even those who have dialed the wrong number, say students. "It's a good feeling" when one of the messages says "nice message but wrong number," Yakir Siegal's '89 says...
...spastically from one tub to another, careening around arms and flailing scoops to finally smack cups onto the counter, then pivot to the register, ducking around cone-wielding scoopers. It's a sport more intricate than basketball, with the interesting complication that the other team is working with the wrong set of rules...
There were some technical glitches and the usual delays between groups, but helpful people filled the time with talk. Acting Harvard President and Jazz for Life host Henry Rosovsky smoothed the evening's snags. When the Citystep tape went wrong Rosovsky stepped onstage, presented the PBH bowl for public service and then fired off amusing anecdotes until the machine got fixed...