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HARVARD'S DELUXE brochure in honor of the College's 350th anniversary, Glimpses of the Harvard Past, bears the distinguished imprimature of four Harvard history professors. Unfortunately, the authors--some of whom are quite popular for their lively lecture styles--seem to have thrown these essays together in a free weekend, using whatever information was easily available...
...preventing the delivery of linen to Dunster House while the Teamsters union was striking against Harvard Student Agencies, though he says he was only a witness to the events. Thomas says he still believes his family name led Harvard to single him out for prosecution. The charges were later thrown out of court. On the other hand, Thomas says, his name has helped him advance his career in government...
...this is not all wide-eyed and innocent fairy tale theater. Director Andrei Serban has thrown in his share of the hip and trampy. Brighella (Harry S. Murphy), the king's man servant, and Smeraldina (Isabell Monk), Brighella's sister, are the low-class comic duo strutting about the stage. Tramping about, dressed like a tattered peacock of a Southern belle, Smeraldina angles for the king and then anyone who will take her. And Brighella is not above telling her how used her wares...
...Africa believe resources devoted to fighting AIDS should be used instead to treat curable diseases. That view was recently echoed in the Deccan Herald, the leading daily in the state of Karnataka, which declared, "The question must be asked whether so much publicity, time, money and attention must be thrown behind a disease that is barely known to exist in India." Sadly, if the resources are not committed, AIDS may soon become an all-too-familiar household word on the subcontinent...
...leading English-language newspapers, the government conceded that two of its emergency orders concerning the press had been promulgated improperly, and were therefore invalid. One order forbade the press to cover actions of the security forces, and the other banned journalists from black residential areas. The directives were thrown out by the court because the government had failed to announce them in the official gazette or by public proclamation, but had simply dispatched them by telex to the South African Press Association. The government can still put the measures into effect whenever it chooses by following the prescribed procedures...