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...Harvard good, Duke bad. Is that fair? Let's suppose that I, having only been at Harvard a few days, walked into a common room of one of these university's grand houses and overheard some male students referring to a woman as a girl, or making racial slurs, or even claiming that another region of the country has no culture. (I think we can all agree that this is not an inconceivable scenario.) Let's further suppose that I already knew some things about Harvard--say, that this University still has money invested in South Africa, while Duke divested...
...would be more interesting if he did it before a large crowd," said Lenny C. Dang '90, who overheard Karol at the next table in the Quincy House dining hall...
Vrooman's gripes were shared by many others. "I hate footnotes" was the most commonly overheard comment yesterday at the informal champagne and Pepperidge Farms cookie reception at Burr Hall. Following the 5 p.m. deadline, the lounge of the History and Literature office was packed with relieved seniors...
Outside the visiting locker room at Bright Center, December 4, 1988, around 4:30 p.m., a conversation was overheard between two reporters from Ithaca...
...Overheard in a gaggle of White House reporters waiting for a sighting of the peripatetic George Bush: "Such a good guy. Such a normal, wonderful family . . . It's disgusting." Beltway political maxim: the only thing worse than persistent corruption is unrelenting wholesomeness...