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Sorrow is Such Sweet Parting

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T WO WEEKS before Christmas, a middle-aged man woke up in a bathtub when his heart shivered. The water had


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Sorrow is Such Sweet Parting

By Tom Blanton  • 

T WO WEEKS before Christmas, a middle-aged man woke up in a bathtub when his heart shivered. The water had


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Tower of Babel

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S OMEHOW a rocking chair seems out of place in the repertoire of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Vietnam correspondent and monomaniacal reporter


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And the American Dream Did the Rest

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I F STEVE BRILL were the type who sings in the shower, he would never have written a book which


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Answers to the Ballot Questions

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Question 1 There's no question about it: Property taxes are going up. Massachusetts already has the highest property taxes of


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Yore Cheatin' Heart

T HERE was great joy in Mudville when Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp announced in August 1976 that Volkswagen would locate


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A Chocolate Mess

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"N-E-S-T-L-E-S, Nestles makes the very best, Mal-nutrition." That mutant jingle from the old commercials made the campus rounds this week,


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Hey, Good Lookin', Whatcha Got Cookin'?

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T HIS IS THE YEAR Ronald Ray-gun's Citizens for the Republic is the number one political fundraiser. This is the


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Meanwhile, at the Med School...

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Last spring Dr. Oglesby Paul '38 was a lonely man. As the Harvard Medical School's new director of admissions, Paul


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Book Review

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S OME TIME DURING the night of September 13, 1974, an unseen group of bucket-bearing revolutionaries plastered every flat surface

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