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...television news helicopter cir- cled that area, police, fire fighters,Chemistry Department officials and HarvardEnvironmental Health and Safety workers struggledto explain the explosion...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Three Post-Docs Injured in Lab Explosion | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...fact, Cohen's documents are at the heart of a potential landmark lawsuit that could ban the use of race in college admissions. CIR is representing a group of white students turned down by the University of Michigan who, it contends, would have been admitted under the standards applied to minority applicants. Conservative strategists have come to view the federal courts as their best ally in the battle against affirmative action. Proposals to roll back racial preferences have gone nowhere in Congress. Affirmative-action foes won big in California last year with Proposition 209, but that victory has turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACE IN AMERICA: THE NEXT GREAT BATTLE OVER AFFIRMATIVE ACTION | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...auto industry largely to cupidity and arrogance in Detroit. Sheltered by cheap oil and the absence of foreign rivals, the auto magnates typified by the Ford family flourished in an environment that amounted to a "parody of competition" after World War II. Until the '70s, Halberstam says, the cir- cumstances of automaking's Big Three amounted to a state of "shared monopoly" in which innovation was smothered, and warnings of dire change on the economic horizon were ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Glare of the Rising Sun | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

Phillips Brooks House-Prison Tutoring Committee Chair, Harvard Band-Bass Drum Manager, H/R Catholic Student Cir. Volunter. J.V. Squash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1985 Candidates for Harvard Class Marshal | 10/2/1985 | See Source »

...especially during his long, arduous court ship of his wife Clara. Three of the four couples who make up the ballet (Suzanne Farrell and Jacques D'Amboise, Heather Watts and Peter Martins, Kay Mazzo and Ib Andersen) are doubtless members in good standing of Schumann's magic cir cle. The fourth pair, Karin von Aroldingen and Adam Lüders, inhabit a desperate interior world. For although Schumann's youthful pipe dreams were lightly scatty, his mind eventually disintegrated into madness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: The Death of the Heart | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

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