Word: flights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women's Tennis: In the SUnity Life Tennis Classic in Syracuse, N.Y., last weekend, Ericka Elmuts led the Harvard women's tennis team, advancing to the finals of flight-4 singles before dropping a 6-2, 6-2 decision to Alexis Boss of Dartmouth. (See graphic for full results of this weekend's action...
While Jennifer Minkus and Tricia Small were the only other Harvard players to advance past the opening round of the championship tournaments, Kim Cooper advanced to the finals of the feed-in consolation tournament in flight-2 singles...
However, increasing economic interdependence and communication technology continue to heighten the importance of an international frame of mind. At the same time, Harvard must acknowledge that it no longer enjoys the uncontested preeminence in academia that it has for most of its existence. Attracting top-flight students and faculty, as well as offering the finest learning opportunities, will increasingly depend on providing a truly international education...
College administrators vehemently reject that accusation. Increasing tuition charges, they say, merely reflect their own increasing expenses. In particular, they cite soaring costs for building construction and maintenance; salary-inflating battles to woo and keep top-flight faculty members, especially in science and business; and the dizzying price of keeping up with technology, ranging from computerized card catalogs to the latest in lab paraphernalia. Hardware and faculty often go hand in hand: when Duke lured physicist John Madey away from Stanford, it promised to build a lab for his free-electron laser research. Cost: $5 million...
...acclamation, the late Kim Philby holds the title Spy of the Century, and the tale of his flight to the Soviet Union in 1963 is still being retold in books and movies. Three of his fellow spies in England -- Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Anthony Blunt -- were also unmasked. But there has long been suspicion that there was a fifth man and much speculation about his identity. Last week the KGB offered confirmation of sorts. After a Moscow screening of a propaganda film on the Soviet intelligence service, British correspondent Rupert Cornwell buttonholed Yuri Modin, who had been...