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These are the people who will leave Harvard this year, and for another 347 years, to become loyal alumni of the Porcellian Club and lawyers in New York earning six-figure salaries. For with the Harvard name stamped on a diploma that you can hang up on the wall and write into your resume, there's little that will get in your way. Many of them entered Harvard knowing exactly what they had to do; took their required pre-med courses, learned computer skills and filled out the applications that they needed to keep climbing up the ladder...
...chanted "Death to America," but demonstrations had periodically rumbled around the embassy before in the ten months since Shah Reza Pahlavi had been forced out of Iran by the Muslim revolution. In February, Marxist guerrillas had seized the embassy and held it for nearly two hours. That time, forces loyal to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, in what now seems the sourest of ironies, came to the rescue of Ambassador William Sullivan and some 100 embassy employees. Since then the ambassador had left, dependents had been sent home, and the garrison staff that remained had grown accustomed to angry commotion...
...Linebacker Ted Hendricks, and they have thrived. Such rehabilitations have embarrassed more than one team. Says Cleveland Coach Sam Rutigliano: "I won't trade with him, and when we shake hands, I check to be sure I still have five fingers." Davis' retreads and rejects are fiercely loyal to the man who saved their careers. Says Defensive End John Matuszak: "Oakland was my last shot. Al Davis decided to help this kid out. I'll never let him down...
...Georgia). His reserve disappears when the subject is this season's successes. "I wanted the national championship for personal reasons, of course," he says. "I wouldn't be human if I didn't. But I also wanted it for the players and coaches and the loyal fans who have waited so long and been such good friends over the years." Seventeen years, to be exact...
...political commissar was noted, it was also forgiven. But nine years later the party was not so lenient. In 1944, Uspensky, who had risen quickly in the Soviet Army, took part in a seminar on the post-war tactics of the Communist Party. Although he still considered himself a loyal Bolshevik, he felt that some of the party's actions were incompatible with Communist ideology, and used the opportunity to aim masked criticism at Stalin. "I was clandestine and hoped I could get away with it," Uspensky says. "I said things which are now considered quite right, but then were...