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...crews, novice and freshman, J.V. and Varsity, women and men, have rowed indoors for the past few months. They have run countless miles, pushed and lifted tons of weights, and rowed millions of strokes, all in preparation for the spring...
There is also Latin America's isolation and mournful history: the rise and fall of great pre-Columbian cultures, Spanish colonialism, wars of liberation and the unquiet peace of countless dictators. Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Márquez addressed this past last year when he accepted the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature from the Swedish Academy: "A reality not of paper, but one that lives within us ... and nourishes a source of insatiable creativity, full of sorrow and beauty." The problem, said the novelist, was how to tell the story. The region's writers found solutions...
...Countless times they made everyone forget they were not one of the nation's best. Often they used sheer determination to post stunning victories over for superior teams. And when fans recounts the magical 1982-83 Harvard women's ice hockey season, they will speak of the thrilling wins over Northeastern. Dartmouth and Boston University...
...Council on Tobacco Research, a group to which five of the six principal cigarette manufacturers belong, which still denies the well-established causal lationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. These coalitions attempt toe refute self-incriminating data about their products under he guise of "unbiased" health councils. Countless other similar "scientific" cancer research centers are supported solely by industrial funds, and churn out reports which seem intended only to clear their own names...
Retirement from Harvard, slated for 1985, will probably not signal a less active agenda for Dunlop as his responsibilities in federal and state governments are likely to continue. And one activity that the author of 14 books and countless articles on labor and industrial relations is sure to keep working at is writing. "I'm always writing books," he says...