Word: adopters
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...intellectual home? Where else, but the place that has always shown itself a safe-haven for bureaucratic absurdities. As though it has not done enough in preserving the tradition of pointless paperwork, generous sinecures, proliferating committees, sub-committees, and ad hoc working groups, Harvard has now decided it should adopt the animus of Mr. Khrushchev's greatest folly...
Thus, I have three suggestions. First, try to convince the powers that be to adopt Plan Two. Second, if you don't mind being a minor criminal, participate in the Tupperware plan yourself. Third, if you do participate in the current program, take Martin S. Feldstein '61 out to dinner with you. Take up a collection to pay for his meal--society owes him at least a plate of General...
Harvard lost Erin Maher '93 and Debbie Flandermeyer '93--the school's two all-time leading scorers--to graduation, and their departure leaves huge gaps in every area and has caused the team to adopt a more open and aggressive style...
Never mind that these kids were not only less obnoxious, but less violent than a lot of drunk Harvard assholes I've seen in Au Bon Pain on plenty of weekends. With Harvard students, Cambridge seems to adopt a boys-will-be-boys attitude...
Should the U.S. adopt similar restrictions? That may be difficult at this point. Such research is usually controlled indirectly through the federal purse strings: the government simply cuts off funding to projects Congress finds offensive. But that wouldn't work in this case since there is no federal funding for embryo research; experiments are financed largely by private money, much of it derived from the booming business of in-vitro fertilization...