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...guess what we have to do is try to get a description of it and see if it works and if we could adopt it for use here," Duehay said...
...committee of four tutors and five students in Eliot met for the first time last week to consider changing the system of room assignment--one option being to adopt a lottery system similar to those used by other houses...
Gaddafi's chicanery, though, appeared to win him only a brief delay. Without ! waiting for the World Court's ruling, the Security Council is expected this week to adopt sanctions directing U.N. members to break all airline links with Libya, stop all sales of arms to that country and expel most Libyan diplomats. Such penalties, and Gaddafi's desperate efforts to escape them, signal that the civilized world's terrorist counteroffensive has made much more progress than is often generally recognized...
...Harvard students should adopt the friendliness rules of Wal-Mart. If you come within 10 feet of another individual, smile, look them in the eye and greet them with either hello, good morning or my, you look ravishing. (Caution: Use the third greeting sparingly, lest you appear insincere.) Even if you do not attract members of the opposite sex, you will at least contribute to making Harvard a more civil place...
Stromsten said Lozano felt "totally rejected"after Bean-Bayog terminated her relationship withhim to adopt a baby. "I asked him if he loved Dr.Bean-Bayog and he said he was very much in lovewith...