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Tactics, too, have changed. Instead of protesting in front of the final clubs, Theoharis says SWAT sought endorsements from the Harvard administration, from Radcliffe and from the Undergraduate Council. She says modern activists now resort to confrontation only as a last resort, when working within the system fails...
While Hizballah emerged as the clear winner on the ground, a larger victory may fall to Syrian President Hafez Assad. In late-night talks at the presidential villa near the Syrian seaside resort of Latakia last week, Assad and a four-member Hizballah delegation reached agreement on a cease-fire in the Beirut suburbs, followed 24 hours later by the entry into the area of a peacekeeping contingent of Syrian troops. On Friday morning, 900 Syrian infantrymen, armed with machine guns and grenade launchers and accompanied by Lebanese police, moved into a buffer zone between the warring militias. Under Syrian...
When these bugs arrive, Lamont Library suddenly becomes a Club Lamont resort, the place to go when they need to get away from the stresses of their Harvard classes. It's in a perfect location, too--just a hop away from the Union Candy Store, the source of their illicit behavior. They seem to think the the signs in the library read "All kinds of foods allowed. Club Lamont provides excellent dining facilities rivalled by the Union itself...
...Studying hard?" This is the favorite opening line of these buggers. No, actually, their friends have nothing better to do so they decided that it was a lovely day to come to the Club Lamont resort and enjoy the rays from the lightbulbs...
...Broadway version of Chess is daringly different from London's gaudy expressionistic phantasm. That show's chess matches are displayed on 128 video screens and refereed by a surreal punk; the production hopscotches from a Tyrolean resort to British boardrooms to Bangkok's red-light district, each cartoonishly evoked. Nunn took over in London, two weeks before rehearsals started, when the late Michael Bennett (A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls) was stricken with AIDS. Says Nunn: "By the time I came into the project, it was designed and cast, and the basic narrative decisions had been taken...