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Although no one in Harvard Stadium (game time 1:30 p.m.) will see it, every player on the Harvard team will be wearing a white t-shirt with the words, "We Owe Corne 1," written in large red letters under their jerseys...
...billion seized by the U.S. is ours. Its return to Iran needs no negotiation. Some U.S. companies have obtained court orders for freezing Iranian assets against debts which they claim we owe them. Such claims should be considered. If we really owe them money, we will pay it. By the same token, scores of U.S. companies have received fabulous sums for equipment and services they have not delivered. Furthermore, U.S. companies have sold us industrial plants that they must, according to their contractual obligations, supply with raw materials and spare parts. We don't want anything more than...
...represents the view of the people. Let us be realistic. Unless we keep riding the tide of revolution, down we go as a government." Explaining that a number of whites had asked him to be more moderate, he added scornfully: "What am I to moderate? What do I owe them...
...govern the city from day to day, they have the power to see that it is pretty much run as they wish. For years, ethnic politicians dominated the council chambers. Now, the council features four "Independents"--relatively conservative neighborhood politicians--four Cambridge Civic Association members--liberals who owe their election to a shaky coalition of tenants and the Brattle St. wealthy--and one Alfred E. Vellucci, a self-described "small independent." Vellucci is the swing vote on most important issues; of late the 30-year council veteran and former mayor has been leaning left...
...make use of sport for their own ends." Steady as the Olympic torch, that sort of mindlessness has been passed from I.O.C. president to I.O.C. president, from Avery Brundage to Killanin, and soon, most likely, to President-elect Juan Antonio Samaranch, who sounds a lot like his predecessors. All owe their conventional wisdom, if not their tone, to Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Games. Decreed Coubertin: "The essential thing in life is not conquering, but fighting well." The words are charming, and perhaps even true, but they have never applied to the Olympics...