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...create friendships among members,” Cetrulo wrote in an e-mail. “The Owl has a diverse membership, ranging from all political, social and economic areas.” In 1984, the University severed ties with the final clubs after attempts to pressure them to admit women were unsuccessful. The University cited Title IX of the 1972 Higher Education Act, a federal law championed by Kennedy. The senator is not the first final club member to serve in elected office. Both of his older brothers, President John F. Kennedy ’40 and Sen. Robert...
...sense a bomb was about to drop—“because I was willing to do the second and didn’t feel like doing the first.”Provocation had long been Summers’ modus operandi, but it was unusual for him to admit that outright. Perhaps he felt comfortable inside the confines of what was ostensibly an off-the-record meeting, though nothing said among 40 professors is private. Or perhaps he thought he could remove his University president’s cap for an hour, though he has since acknowledged...
...down the tubes. It is time to disillusion.He is right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is—working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the word “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system-beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come...
...DIED. SHIRO AZUMA, 93, Japanese World War II veteran who was one of the few ex-soldiers to admit to having participated in the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, in which as many as 300,000 Chinese were killed; in Kyoto. In his diary, published in 1987 as My Nanking Platoon, Azuma graphically described rapes and beheadings. "We were taught that we were a superior race," he told CNN in 1998. "But the Chinese were not. So we held nothing but contempt for them...
...have a confession to make: I am a political junkie. not that I have a problem - it's under control. But yes, I admit it: I care deeply about the fate of Charles Kennedy, the affable party leader of Britain's Liberal Democrats, who resigned last week after the storm that followed his extraordinary admission that he has received help for what he termed "a drinking problem." So when I was cruising a Web news site late last week, I zeroed in on a headline reading I knew I had a problem, and I couldn't admit it, hoping...