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They have no motto to match the dignity of "New York's finest," or the Los Angeles police's promise "to protect and to serve." But since the 1940s, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) has sought to combine the duties of law-enforcement with the protection of a college community's interests...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Pounding the Beat With Harvard's Finest | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

...government leaders last month, the paper, rechristened Gazeta Codzienna (Daily Gazette), will continue to be published after the election. While the editors have announced their intention to "present views and opinions of the whole independent society," the Gazeta will no doubt always have a favorite subject. The paper's motto: "There is no freedom without Solidarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Extra! Freedom Of the Press | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

...preserve the original intent of this, the last true bastion of fun at Harvard. Nothing short of House pride is at stake here. Those who do not will have to live with their sheepish unworthy selves for yet another year. We challenge you all to take to heart the motto of the Three-Time Champion Leverett House Raft Race Corps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Survival of the Fittest | 4/25/1989 | See Source »

Sullivan's motto is a peculiarly apt phrase with which to discuss Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Tale. Set in the city of the Golden Gate Bridges--one of America's postcard-perfect suspension bridges--Kingston's work balances characters and cliches in a startling manner...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Monkey See, Monkey Do in the City of the Golden Gate | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...notorious bank-robbing Younger brothers, who each served more than 20 years here after a badly planned bank job in Northfield, Minn. Coleman, the eldest, became prison librarian and printer's devil at the newspaper. In his second year Cole was named Mirror editor, and the paper's motto became -- and remains -- "It's never too late to mend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mirror A Free Press Flourishes | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

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