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...found amusing—is allowable but presenting the registrar’s office with a Hallmark card is an offense worthy of months of investigation, there is no real way to know, as a student, where lines are drawn.  Thus we are faced with two options: accept the risk of suspension for every “greeting card” or forego Grand Elections entirely...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child | Title: Greetings from the Ad Board | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Wanting to wear the burka seems to me to be a self-inflicted wound that I just can’t accept. In this symbolic matter, the French tradition seems to me to be for France, at least, the more plausible alternative: for France, and eventually, for all women everywhere...

Author: By Patrice L. R. Higonnet | Title: Burka in the French and American Minds | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...books that Better World Books did not accept were donated to Got Books, which donates and sells books overseas and to educators through its affiliates to prevent books from turning into waste...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HKS Library Filters Books, Creates Space | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

Braimah says her parents are beginning to accept her unconventional career ambitions, and her dad has even given her some architecture books...

Author: By Victoria L. Venegas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seeking a Practical Education | 5/14/2010 | See Source »

...against her, she doesn’t take very kindly to that,” said Kelley, who was familiar with staff assistants that worked under Kagan. “If she presents an idea, she wants everyone to accept it immediately without question, without debate, without input...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Elena Kagan’s Management Style Amped Up Pressure at Harvard Law School | 5/14/2010 | See Source »

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