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...subscribed to The Crimson from her home in Colorado mainly to keep abreast of the track team's exploits. Her complaint was that many of the team members--including 1988 U.S. Olympic marathon alternate Paul Gompers--deserved far more than the six to eight column inches they received on this page once or twice a week...
...space available on the shuttle is inadequate for the number of people waiting. With people packed two abreast in the tiny aisle and pressed against the front door, the shuttle is crowded way beyond the normal safety limit. This is just asking for disaster. Furthermore, despite the fact that the shuttle is overcrowded (especially on bad days), there are still people who can't squeeze on. They have waited for the shuttle to get to class, but now they will have to walk to class anyway and, since they have wasted their time waiting, they will be late...
...convoy attacks are all the more tragic because the international agencies were well prepared to cope with the famine this time around. The U.N. and the Ethiopian government kept abreast of agricultural conditions through an "early warning system" that included satellite surveillance of farming areas. Months ago, at the first sign that the rains might fail, the agencies acted. One of the first nations to dispatch aid was the U.S., whose Agency for International Development is still bitter over charges that it did not do enough during the last crisis...
...some say Harvard has done too little, too late on keeping abreast of ethical education, and these programs do not fill the gap sufficiently. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett has attacked Harvard's stance on ethics several times this year, once from the podium of Sanders Theater as he delivered an address in celebration of the University's 350th anniversary...
...What has happened is that financial aid money has not kept abreast of the full cost of college tuitions and expenses," says Sarah Melendez, associate director for the Office of Minority Concerns at the American Council on Education (ACE). Because of recessions that have put more minorities beneath the poverty line, she says, today "you have a poorer population trying to pay a higher price with fewer dollars...