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...decades Harvard students have griped about taking their books home over winter break. And when a University committee recommended last year that all Harvard schools adopt the same calendar, it looked like their dream of a free winter vacation might come true...
...know why the terrorists haven't poisoned our food supply yet, because it's so easy to do." TOMMY THOMPSON, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, in a warning about potential bioterror attacks that prompted the Food and Drug Administration to adopt new guidelines against food contamination...
...Ghost looks at me with pity and informs me of what awaits thereafter. “You will still find a decent job, you will still find happiness and financial stability and you will still adopt a baby girl and name her Starr with two Rs. Were you to ever mention what you got on your thesis—whether you did good or bad—you would be labeled an asshole. You see, naive boy, your thesis means nothing but what you want it to mean. It is merely a footnote dropped at a cocktail party...
...highest offices of the council have always stuck to posters to get their messages out. Beyond poster drops, door-to-door visits from candidates, websites of varying degrees of slickness and a lot of screaming outside of the Science Center, these campaigns have long seemed reluctant to adopt more creative measures—use of a yellow bird outfit in the 2003 campaign of Aaron S. Byrd ’05 aside...
...public schools—with more part-time and transfers students, the current system writes off as “drop-outs” many students who ultimately graduate.“We’re forced to adopt this cookie-cutter approach to assessing student progress,” Wright said...