Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When Josh Banerjee `00 and Jeffrey R. Gu `00 walked into their first period English class senior year of high school, the class broke into a standing ovation. That morning, Josh and Jeff had called Harvard and found out their early action decisions. Without knowing the results, the other seniors just assumed that the two had gotten in. "It was so cool," Jeff recalls. "The class gave us a standing ovation when I thought we were going to get a tardy...
...Lindi grew up in South Africa and Australia. "My dad is an academic, but is more of an action-academic since he combines community work and action with academia," Lindi says. "He began an institution to promote nonracial relationships--this was all going on during apartheid." Though the Doveys have deep roots in South Africa, subtle pressures from the apartheid regime eventually prompted her parents to move to Australia when she was three. From then on, Lindi's family shuttled back and forth between the two countries about every two years, drawn back by her parents' desire to help South...
...recent onslaught of anti-tobacco and anti-gun litigation offers an enticing bandwagon. However tempting any opportunity to finally strike a slow to the hitherto elusive tobacco companies and gun manufacturers may be, the policy of circumventing on augmenting legislature through judicial action sets a policy neither America nor policy neither America nor any legislative democracy can afford...
...Harvard's age-old governing system, which cedes wide swaths of power to individual schools within the University and to departments within those schools, Faculty members have wide latitude in determining administrative action...
Still, Harvard should take a lead role in pressing for the change. As we saw last May during debate over the Riggs amendment, which would have stripped funds from colleges and universities with affirmative action programs. Harvard can wield considerable influence in Washington. Pushing for an end to a law that penalizes law schools for following their consciences would be another good use of that prestige...