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Still, the new policy is a step in the right direction. In the last few months there has been substantial progress. The willingness to act on the voices of the students groups demanding equality could be improved, but even the attempt gives us hope that the conflict will be resolved sometime soon...
...addition, the alumni of the final clubs are a key asset to members. The alumni networks can offer members not only financial help but an extended family of Harvard graduates to counsel them and occasionally act as mentors in ways which no other organization can match...
Ruiz's version of "Cyrano de Bergarac" would begin in the 17th century and move forward 100 years each act, ending in the 21st century ("with a bleak, post-apocalyptic thing at the end," Ruiz notes...
...beauty and virtue. Yet what comfort is that to a parent who came across a website last week in which the index included the following entries: "Counterfeit Money," "Hot-Wiring Cars," "Breaking into Houses," "Thermite Bombs," "Tennis Ball Bomb"? Such is the power of Web technology that the simple act of listing the phrases here will make it possible for anyone to type these words into a search engine and immediately locate the site that houses them...
...other hand, its greatest asset is speed. The research process can be shortened from months to hours and maybe even minutes. But you should still go to Minot, N.D., for that crucial land deed or to Cresson, Pa., to find an old newspaper article. The Internet can act as a valuable lead to start research but not to finish it. CHRIS J. LEWIE Hilliard, Ohio...