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...boss's campaign to give $14 million to the contras, only a week after said boss has called the contras "our brothers" and "the moral equal of our Founding Fathers." But it's not the impolitic thing to say if one is using the time-honored leak method to away the course of the boss's policy...
...release of the letter, dated April 2, comes during a week filled with protests calling on Harvard to divest of stock in companies with South African operations. The University has long held that complete divestment is ineffective as a method to fight South African's legal segregation of its Black majority population...
...Rights Ordinances. However, people connected with parts of Harvard such as the New England Deposit Library (in Allston) or the New England Regional Primate Research Center (in Southboro) are not. A non-discrimination cause would not only protect these Harvard affiliates, but would also provide an alternate (and internal) method of filing and redressing complaints to going through city procedures...
...surer method, says Gerard A. DelTergo, is to be on good enough terms with the clerks so that you can leave an article of clothing there for a week or two--so that by then, the item is marked down to the optimal price...
SIMULATION TRAINING. Educational software was once limited to electronic flash cards suitable for drilling students in math, spelling or Latin verbs. Now software writers are using the computer's capacity for simulating real-life situations to teach such subjects as anatomy and aviation. The method has proved particularly successful in the world of high finance. In Scarborough's Run for the Money ($80), PC users learn about business by competing in the market for synthetic bananas. In Harvard Associates' MacManager ($50), players run their own widget making companies. In Scarborough's Make Millions ($50), the simulation includes an office with...