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Harvard is unlikely to eliminate stops at the B-School and K-School because these faculties help to pay the shuttle's annual budget. But in the interest of efficiency and making life at the Quad more pleasant, the College should shell out the extra few thousand bucks it would take each year. After all, who wants to live in wonderful suites in the suburbs if you can't get to them...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: STUFF I THINK: | 2/24/1987 | See Source »

...tales of an innocent person drawn into a web of complicity and accused of murder. All three trade in multiple female identities and tease the viewer into hoping the heroine will take one more step in the dark. Now for the differences. Winter is a dud in a handsome shell. Window has a cunning plot but not much craft. Widow rides smoothly on Hitchcockian tracks until it finds its own detours of style and psychology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Ghost of Alfred Hitchcock | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...ambulance left the shell-battered camp on Beirut's southern outskirts shortly before dusk without evacuating any wounded Palestinians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gunmen Kill Iranian Envoy in Lebanon | 2/14/1987 | See Source »

...THRASHING FURY swells within your trembling shell. With your face twitching furiously in all directions, you passionately smash your chair through the fourth floor dorm window and jump head first onto the cold, hard cement...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Bothersome Bits of Harvard | 2/12/1987 | See Source »

...Internal Revenue Service for help in tracing the money of tax cheats have up to now gone unanswered. As Planning Minister Ricaurte Vasquez has observed, "Only two things are certain: death and taxes. We're still working on solving the first one." A Panamanian lawyer who set up several shell companies for former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos is more direct: "It's none of my business where the money comes from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dirty Dollars | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

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