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Although the performance of the field men was striking, the running events suffered from a conspicuous lack of Crimson talent. Due to the various exigencies of injuries and academic ocnflicts, such Harvard top guns as Jeff Campbell, Todd Hooks, Paul Organ, and Gary Schmidt were absent from the meet. The lack of a Harvard sprint relay team was an unfortunate result...
...class one girl lagged behind. She told me that as a child her parents were often absent from home and she had been brought up in the care of her elderly grandmother, who was schizophrenic and who hallucinated all the time. The girl herself, living in this environment, started having several imaginary playmates with whom she would converse. When her parents discovered this they took her from her grandmother and managed to 'train the voices away.' But the girl told me that now, whenever she is in any stressful situation, her imaginary playmates come back to her and talk...
...from being absent from the valedictory lecture, I was indeed present--but also mouselike quient, awe-struck by the continuities of history...
Senior faculty members in European history this week disagreed sharply with Handlin. "Some members of the department--certainly at least a half-dozen--expressed surprise and indignation at what emerged at that faculty meeting," one senior Europeanist said. "And that does not take account of the people that, though absent from the meeting, expressed similar sentiments later...
...caretaker government, he was bound by law to stay on until a new government is formed after the May 17 elections. Sensitive to the situation, Attorney General Aharon Barak suggested a loophole in the law that would allow a caretaker to step down if the Premier were "absent from the country or temporarily unable to fulfill his duty." Rabin at first refused to take advantage of this option, which fueled rumors that he might be planning a political comeback. At week's end, however, Rabin indicated that he would take an extended vacation. This cleared the way for Shimon...