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...central problem of undergraduate housing at Harvard: the University's attitude that crowding a houseful of sophomores and juniors is a price worth paying to ensure that there are never any empty rooms. Forcing a year or two of overcrowding onto a house or sending sophomores to Wigglesworth or Sumner Road--the likely destination of 10 upperclassmen--is not a reasonable resolution to the College's housing crisis...
...Associated Press indicated that 40 or more candidates allied to LaRouche lost nominating campaigns for elective offices in New Jersey, California, Iowa and Alabama. One initially unchallenged LaRouche candidate in Orange County, Calif., was so weak that a last-minute write-in campaign for County Democratic Chairman Bruce Sumner came within 500 votes of stopping him. Sumner, who jumped into the race to halt the LaRouche onslaught, is expected to call for a recount...
...sets, particularly in the second act, underline the comic-book nature of this zany saga. In Technicolor orange and black, Solong has become a blazing, windswept, oil-spattered wasteland of a desert, worthy of Sam Shepard. Designer David Sumner has done an equally masterful job with the romantic starry skies and the eastern spires of the sultan's estate...
Congress has a proud history of conflict resolution. Lawmakers occasionally settled things at ten paces, until William Graves of Kentucky killed Jonathan Cilley of Maine in 1839, prompting Congress to pass an antidueling law. Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, a master of invective, once derided a colleague as a "noisome, squat and nameless animal." In 1856 Preston Brooks, a South Carolina Congressman bent on avenging an insult to an infirm uncle in the Senate, came upon Sumner from behind and, guttapercha cane in hand, beat him senseless on the Senate floor. Brooks resigned but was immediately voted back into office...
...first time. In three weeks Gardner will star on NBC's A.D., a Christians vs. lions mini-series in which she plays Agrippina, Nero's manipulative mother. Last week brought the start of her seven-episode stint on Knots Landing, in which she portrays the wealthy Ruth Sumner, another manipulative mother and one of those prime-time soap characters like J.R. and Alexis who manage to drub everyone the wrong way. "It's a whole new way of working," says Gardner. "I can't seem to calm down." She took to the tube "mainly for the money," she admits...