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Mazie said he and Rubin, along with Daniel E. Kosowski '93, have founded Jerk in order to combat "a marked dearth of humor on the Harvard Campus...
...Combat. If one noun sums up Tom Harkin's political program and persona, it is combat. The Iowa Democrat proudly describes the strategy that won him five terms in the House and two in the Senate: "Always attack, never defend." He believes that a pugnacity gap kept Democrats out of the White House through the '80s. Now, as he runs for President, he proposes to fill that gap by waging class warfare against George Bush and guerrilla operations against Democrats he considers timid. "The only thing Americans like less than a dirty fighter," he says, "is someone...
...health officials counted 1,700 cases nationally. Last year there were more than 27,000 cases -- primarily in poor urban areas -- with 89 deaths. In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, health officials cannibalized their syphilis programs, which had focused on the inner city, in order to combat the new threat. As a result, the incidence of syphilis among African Americans doubled between...
...Islands and was with the Marines when they landed on the Treasury Islands. And when General Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines at Leyte, Chickering was among the first ashore. "Correspondents are supposed to be an intrepid lot," he wrote. Nevertheless, Chickering was well aware of the dangers of combat. In January 1945, while serving aboard the battleship New Mexico, he penned a humorous spoof titled "How to Be Unafraid in Warfare, Though Panic-Stricken," in which he poked fun at some of the risks of war. On Jan. 6, at 28, he was killed when a Japanese plane carrying...
...Youth Intervention Program was launched by the police department to combat a wave of auto thefts in Tulsa, where 7,599 vehicles were stolen in 1990 alone, many by juveniles. By limiting the plan largely to 12- to 14-year- olds, officials hope to reach kids they can still straighten out. The youths and their parents sign contracts with the county juvenile bureau, committing the offenders to patrol shifts. In 14 months, six youths have made it through an average of 150 hours of patrols to complete their probation, and one of them has gone on to enroll...