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Hyman is forward-looking, and has set the College's weakling student government on a path of meaningful convalescence. There has been a notable lack of scandal and bombast--in its stead, Hyman's administration has been characterized by a low-key, steady build-up of student confidence in and respect for what had been Harvard's most buffoonish comedy of ego and intrigue. Old memories--of offices being broken into, funds illegally transferred and blackmail documents melodramatically exposed at panel discussions--are starting to fade into the dim background buzz of history...
Christine Arruda addressed increasing teacher quality, and Robin A. Harris said she would encourage teachers to actively share ideas. Charles L. Stead, a final candidate for a seat on the committee, was not present at the debate...
...aides suggested that Dole revive his call to make English America's "official language," a long-standing Dole position that ranks about midway on the G.O.P. right-wing's wish list. No, the candidate told his advisers, that would be "inappropriate" for an audience concerned with military matters. In stead Dole reiterated his essentially centrist themes, as he did all across the South last week. Dole kept saying he wants to "rein in government and return power to the people," but he also kept saying "government does a lot of good things" and that voters should look around them...
...papers submitted last February by Apple Computer, Gates personally threatened to stop developing application software for the Macintosh if Apple continued working on a programming tool that would compete with Microsoft's. "Since Microsoft is the largest supplier of software applications for the Macintosh," wrote Apple general counsel Edward Stead, "this threat was a serious one." Gates denies saying any such thing...
...Policies that will not stand us in good stead have been included due to short-term considerations or political expediency," the memo read. "The neglect of longer-term, indirect, effects of policies is a serious defect of the package of changes you have put forward...