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...exam period ends, but the legend lives on. Some day he may move on, as did his predecessor, John F. Adams, to an administrative position within the official University structure. Perhaps some day he will retire to publish his memoirs. But in the meantime, Harvard students will continue their love-hate relationship with Bill Edwards. They will continue to love the sense of continuity and curiosity he creates; they will continue to resent the authority he stands for when he finally barks out, "The exam is over." Bill Edwards has been at Harvard for the better part of a decade...
...June 1975. The Met decided to abolish the job of general manager and substitute a conglomerate-style troika: executive director (Anthony A. Bliss), music director (James Levine), director of production (John Dexter). This reorganization apparently reflected the board's resentment of Bing, Chapin's autocratic predecessor. William Rockefeller, board president in 1975, also complained that Chapin had become a public personality, as though that were...
...schedule, the President will place a wreath at New Delhi's Rajhat shrine to Mohandas Gandhi, outline to the Indian Parliament his hopes for helping the world's poor and explore with Prime Minister Morarji Desai ways to improve U.S.-Indian relations. Under Desai's predecessor, Indira Gandhi, New Delhi warmed up to the Soviets and cold-shouldered the U.S., particularly after President Nixon's "tilt" in favor of Pakistan during the 1971 war with India. Desai and Carter will talk about how the U.S. could aid the Indian economy. The President is also expected...
...Hrdy, 31, portrays langur life as a "soap opera" that revolves around the struggle between the sexes. As in other species, the strongest males compete for control of each troop. What makes the langurs different is that the winner tries to bite to death the young offspring of his predecessor. The mothers resist the infanticide until the struggle looks hopeless, then pragmatically present themselves to the new ruler for copulation...
...marked physical contrast to Kingman Brewster, his elegant and patrician predecessor, Giamatti is a chubby, shortish man, much given to wearing rumpled slacks and sports jackets topped on occasion by a Boston Red Sox cap. He is a baseball nut who recently explained that he never wanted to be president of anything except the American League...