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...issue’s decided obscurity means that Bush can expect to face little political heat should he choose to look the other way and can likewise expect to receive little credit should he take a strong stance. Absent such political incentives, a strong Bush stand on Sudan is unlikely; it would demonstrate real principle and genuine compassion...
...After absent-mindedly omitting undergraduates from the planning committee charged with investigating the potential for undergraduate housing in Allston, Harvard’s central administration has recently tried to make amends. Two student representatives were promptly added to the committee once the oversight was pointed out, and last month—at the urging of those representatives—Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby invited students to participate in an online survey which attempts to gauge what students might want out of an Allston campus. We are pleased with the new approach; Kirby finally appears to understand that...
...further proof of the Harvard women’s tremendous depth this spring, a group of sailors comprised of mostly non-regulars battled its way to third place at the Duplin Cup hosted by Tufts on a weekend that lost a day of sailing to absent winds. In fact, the team even entertained thoughts of a second-day surge—if there had been a second...
...Compulsive list-keeping is the orderliness of the disorderly. I?m absent-minded; I lose videocassettes, books, film notes, my house keys and, occasionally, my mind. But I am a walking repository of baseball and box office statistics (my patron saints: Bill James and Art Murphy). I can name every winner of the Best Picture Oscar, reflexively - it?s in my muscle or flab memory - from 1928 to the early 90s, at which point short-term memory loss kicks in. Thus it?s no surprise, though it probably is a pity, that I have kept a running...
...justify expansion into Indian territory. "It was like time-lapse photography," he says. "Two months before [Deadwood begins], there was nothing. Two years later, they had telephones, before San Francisco did." The settlement had no laws, purposely. "It was a primordial soup," Milch says. "How do people organize themselves, absent...