Deborah Gelin

The Unofficial Christmas Countdown

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Walking down the streets of New York City at Thanksgiving, I heard the pleasantly annoying clang of Salvation Army bells.

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The Athletic Department will restrict use of the recently opened weight-lifting room at the Soldiers Field Athletic Complex to varsity

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A lottery in early May will assign year-end dorm clean-up jobs to students, replacing the first-come, first-serve method used in

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Speaking to 40 members of an Institute of Politics study group on political campaigns of the 1980s, former Democratic senator

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Laurence H. Tribe '62, professor of Law, mathematician and artist whom Time Magazine named last week as one of Ten

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John B. Connally, former Secretary of the Treasury, will arrive at Harvard next week as the first of four Visiting

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Next year's class at the Medical School will contain approximately the same number of Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates as in previous years,

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The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters named Walter J. Bate '39, Lawrence Professor of the Humanities, winner

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Jamal M. Ahmed, a former Sudanese foreign minister and an expert on African relations, will come to Harvard later this

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A directory resembling a Who's Who of prominent minority women will appear on bookstands late next year, Jessie C. Smith,