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...Asked by David E. Sanger of The New York Times if one of the side effects of the intelligence failure on Iraq "has been that it has limited your ability to deal with future threats like Iran, like North Korea," Bush began by saying: "Sanger, I hate to admit it, but that's an excellent question." In what may have been a Freudian slip, Bush at one point said "Saddam" for a second before correcting himself to "Osama bin Laden." It came in the course of a story in defense of the domestic surveillance exception that he liked so much...
...alumni first petitioned the school to admit women, but co-education wasn’t a priority for then-University President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853. He opted for a plan that increased ethnic diversity among men instead...
...South Korean scientist, cloning pioneer and Snuppy creator, Woo Suk Hwang, things keep going from bad to worse. Last month, he had to admit that as part of the groundbreaking stem cell research he published in 2004, one of his colleagues had paid some women for their egg donations, and that two of the unpaid donors were Hwang?s own junior researchers. Amid the ethics controversy that ensued, Hwang was hospitalized for extreme fatigue and exhaustion. He was released earlier this week, only to find one of his former researchers on a national newscast claiming that the history-making stem...
...heavy example of the primo couple. Well, those people are wrong. Top 5 “Lost” Couples5. Bernard and Rose: Was it not the most wonderful moment in television history when these two were reunited? I’m not ashamed to admit that I cried. Seriously, ask my roommates—I used up five rolls of toilet paper (and that was only over the first hug). 4. Charlie and the Cocaine: Never before have I seen such an on-again off-again relationship portrayed on TV. And don’t tell me that hobbits...
...addition, randomization has significantly changed our House system in recent years. But even in his 1958 description of the Houses, Segal refers to them as, “what makes Harvard—and, I have to admit, Yale—different from every other university in America.” Today, the essential idea behind the Houses has survived: they are designed to help students build relationships with House tutors and masters, foster social interactions, and develop an attachment to a place we can call “home” for three years. In this particular sense, Harvard...