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Complaints about Harvard's freshman writing program regularly spark conversation in Yard dormitories and the Union, but an off-shoot of Expository Writing being offered for the first time this year is drawing rave reviews from instructors as well as students...
...officials said yesterday that Harvard's new Public Service Program a University funded program that College officials plan to unveil tomorrow could undermine its own attempts to spark similar public service activity among undergraduates...
...which party is in power. As Reagan pointed out in his speech last week, "For too long now, black Americans seem to have been written off by one party and taken for granted by another." The President's point is undoubtedly valid, but his argument is unlikely to spark a black exodus to the G.O.P. so long as the Reagan Administration's record on civil rights is suspect. Meanwhile black allegiance to the Democratic Party is so ingrained that Edwin T. Sexton, head of a black political consulting firm, gloomily advises ambitious black candidates...
...turn out to have been a much shorter-term problem than the one in Poland." Working in Mexico's favor is the oil pool, which, despite declining prices, guarantees a substantial future export income. Another, paradoxically, is the sheer magnitude of the country's debt; rather than spark widespread financial chaos by declaring a default, international bankers have little real choice but to reschedule Mexico's payments. Finally, Mexico's strategic and economic importance to the U.S. means that the oft vilified Tio Sam can be counted on, once again, to lend a helping hand...
...that it was still talking to other major companies about possible merger deals. Though far less generous than Gulfs original bid, the Occidental offer could reverse more than a third of the losses that investors have sustained on Cities Service stock. Moreover, brokers hoped that this new development would spark higher bids for Cities Service from other companies...