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...That set up a Sunday coronation in Paris, along the Champs-Elysees. By custom, there's no racing on the final day if the leader has a significant advantage. Thus, an American was set to win an eighth straight Tour de France title. (A certain Texan named Armstrong won the last seven...
Brita Butler-Wall, executive director of Seattle-based Citizens' Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools, has been lobbying the school board for more than a year to get rid of the Coca-Cola contract. Yet, as a parent of an eighth-grader in a local public school, she says, "I don't want to see our district spending its money hiring more lawyers to fight a legal battle." Adam Drewnowski, director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the University of Washington, says, "If you want to influence the school board, you run for a seat on the board. Threatening...
...vital and distinctive features of Harvard education: the tutorial system, adequate library facilities, and, most importantly, adequate housing space to provide for concentrated private study. To preserve these valued institutions while recognizing the inevitability of enlargements, the University must do some really long-range planning. Meanwhile, expansion aside, an eighth house is absolutely necessary...
...spite of the pressing need for an eighth house, a hygiene building, a theatre, and other improvements amounting to $40 million, there has been a general tendency to feel that all was pretty much all right at Harvard, while all was not quite right with the world. Several sighs of relief were breathed throughout the year as people became increasingly aware of the passing of the McCarthy menace. We felt, however, that precautions must be taken for the future: Eisenhower’s provision for an impartial board to handle security hearings was considered an improvement, but youthful and quite...
...make a great team,” Dahlman said. “We had a lot of fun, and two years of working together helped us build a really strong relationship.” And despite the fact that the Harvard women only finished eighth at Nationals, the Crimson made up five spots on the final day, as the Devlin and Dalhman crew took third. Fittingly, the very last race of the regatta saw their boat where it often is—at the head of the pack. “Leading for most of the last race was awesome...