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...Harvard fencing teams had one edge when they traveled to New York this weekend to combat perennial powerhouse Columbia--the Crimson heart and spirit. Unfortunately, that did not prove to be quite enough...
...that "the lack of an integrated radio station is more a reflection of Boston's segregation than a cause of it," he nonetheless insists that radio stations should be pressured into playing black music; after all, he notes that "someone has to take the lead if we are to combat our racial polarization." Yet calling upon the media to determine, rather than reflect, societal trends is a dangerous proposition. Cross-over media exposure can assist, but not replace, human contact as a means of destroying prejudice and fear...
When 46 states signed the tobacco deal two weeks ago, in which they agreed to drop their smoking-related Medicaid lawsuits in return for $206 billion from the cigarette companies, kids like Randall were a chief consideration. A large chunk of the money will be used to combat teen smoking, which, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, jumped 73% from 1988 to 1996. So a lot of attention may soon be focused on Florida, home of the most aggressive, get-tough campaign against teen smoking...
Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) spokesperson Peggy McNamara said law enforcement officials from Harvard and MIT, under the jurisdiction of the CPD, teamed up to combat the growing bicycle theft problem...
...combat reporting--including that of Peter Arnett of the Associated Press, John Saar and Don Moser of LIFE magazine, Jonathan Schell of the New Yorker, Ward Just of the Washington Post, Sydney Schanberg of the New York Times and scores of others--that is most moving, both for the horror seen and the risks taken. Tom Wolfe's reconstruction of a carrier-based bombing run over North Vietnam still makes one's palms sweat...