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...Washington-based institute would function like an academic foundation, disbursing grants to universities and scholars. Though Congress must first formally appropriate the money, many legislators are convinced that the Peace Institute is at hand. "The price is right," explains Kansas Congressman Dan Glickman, a Democrat. "The funding for the first year is about one-fifth the cost of a single F-15." Around midnight, after a full day of work without a dinner break, the peace-loving conferees were supplied with one of war's little horrors: the latest in C rations, featuring ham loaf with beans and tomato...
Norman Lear hired Borowitz for CBS after the producer met him his senior year at a Lampoon function. "I think it was a gut reaction," said Borowitz of Lear's job offer...
...members of this community from expressing themselves on issues such as apartheid of from engaging in political efforts to promote their views. Indeed, the right to act in this way is an essential part of academic freedom. There is likewise no reason why the University should not perform the function entrusted to it as a shareholder under our laws by voting on issues of social responsibility. The University may even communicate its views through discussions with the officials of companies whose stock it holds. But the line is crossed when a university goes beyond expressing opinions and tries to exert...
...more the University acts in this way the more it risks disturbing the implicit arrangements under which institutions of learning can continue to function with the freedom they need to carry out their essential mission. If Harvard insists on exerting leverage on issues we care deeply about individuals corporations, and other organizations are likely to exert economic pressure against us on matters they feel strongly about, such as the radical opinions of particular professors, or Harvard's positions toward ROTC, or the University's policies concerning involvement in covert CIA activities...
...Crimson's frustrations were aggravated by the efficiency of the Columbia defense, which executed the offside trap almost professionally any time the Harvard eleven tried to penetrate. As a result, Harvard's scoring hopes never reached fruition. Also contributing to the setback was the gadfly-like function performed by the Lions' Caribbean-born front line of Solomon Gayle, Dexter Skeene and Kingsley chin, all three of whom stayed in the faces of the Crimson back four throughout the game...