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When Clay Tarver '88 elegantly sweeps his shoulder-length hair back with his hands and gazes silently into the distance, heads turn in the Adams House dining hall. Guitarist, basketball player and social studies major, Tarver is the closest thing to a sex symbol at Harvard...
...earnestly discussing relations with the Soviet Union, denouncing crack- dealing youth gangs and even trumpeting plans for the exploration of Mars. The closest Jackson has come to finding a focus for his diffuse California campaign was to use environmental cancer hazards in the farmworker community of McFarland as a symbol of the causes that animate his passions. McFarland, Jackson declared, represents his concern for "the environment, toxic waste, safe food, clean water, health care, abandoned workers, safety ((and)) Mexican-Americans...
Although Congress and the White House reached general agreement on most elements of the bill, they were at loggerheads over the plant-closing notification -- an extraneous issue. The Democrats embraced the provision as an important gesture of support for American workers. To the Administration it became a symbol of unwarranted Government interference in business...
...growing number of shutouts, say admissions experts, is caused in part by ! ambitious parents who push their youngsters to carve too high on the academic hog. A name-brand college, says Steinbrecher, "has become a status symbol, like a Gucci shirt." Moreover, the crush of applicants from affluent white suburbs has created a generation of qualified look-alikes, all of whom simply cannot get in, especially when schools are seeking diverse student bodies. A third factor is what admissions people call the scalp takers: top students who sit on a fistful of acceptances, hogging places that might have been offered...
...spending, Brown roared down from his back-bench seat, hurled papers at a minister, then grabbed the 17th century ceremonial mace that rests at the center of the Commons and threw it to the floor. The nearly 5-ft.-long staff, part of the Crown Jewels, is a cherished symbol of Parliament's rule...