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...administrators that sees itself as day-care providers for a red-brick campus of 6,400 pre-schoolers When they see bicycles shuttling students from class to class, they see training wheels on the back. When they hear of a student sucking a nipple, they think of the rubber cap to a bottle of formula. So they moon us, as Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 so accurately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Lewis, We Pay Your Salary | 12/19/1995 | See Source »

...Nixon, Oliver Stone's dense, ultimately disappointing biopic, capture Nixon at his most pathetically endearing--the Commander in Chief as klutz. In a telling vignette lifted from Woodward and Bernstein's The Final Days, Nixon (Anthony Hopkins) gets so frustrated at his inability to remove a medicine safety cap that he finally bites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: DEATH OF A SALESMAN | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

Members of the ad-hoc committee recommended that the council reimburse candidates for their campaign expenses up to a spending cap imposed by the council...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: U.C. May Alter Bylaws For Popular Elections | 12/13/1995 | See Source »

...council amended its constitution last spring to require a spending cap on campaigns, but did not specify an amount or who should fund campaigns. These issues remain very controversial, lain said...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: U.C. May Alter Bylaws For Popular Elections | 12/13/1995 | See Source »

...COMMISSIONER, A THOUGHTFUL, decent man, has a lot to worry about, what with the Balkanization of his league, Dallas owner Jerry Jones' cutting his own marketing deals, a salary-cap system that pleases nobody and one of his referees' asking a star quarterback for his autograph before a game. An early-season prediction by Minnesota Vikings owner Roger Headrick seems to have come true. Responding to Jones' ambush marketing scheme, Headrick said, "You've got chaos; you've got bedlam; you've got...baseball." But there is one aspect of baseball that Tagliabue would love to have: its antitrust exemption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BAD BOUNCES FOR THE N.F.L. | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

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