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...Harvard Alumni Association has done us all a favor by facilitating the advent of a Harvard community in cyberspace. Its new alumni-only e-mail forwarding service, called "Post.Harvard", allows all graduates to maintain a permanent e-mail address featuring their Harvard affiliation...
...marriage have changed. At one point in the not-too-distant past, sex was seen as an outcome of marriage and not as its precondition. For many, the traditional chronology has become inverted. I am not so naive as to think that pre-marital sex never existed before the advent of the "sexual revolution," but if we are to believe the statistics, the incidence of pre-marital relations in earlier times was at least the exception and not the general rule...
Stewart narrowly edged out Jobe G. Danganan '99 by 48 votes, the closest margin since the advent of popular elections in the spring...
Likewise, a humiliating loss at home could signal the advent of a long winter...
...changes in the faculty-student relationship in an academic environment and the potential danger associated with such changes. The traditional "trust-based" mentor-pupil relationship is being challenged by ongoing changes in our society. The power imbalance inherent in the teacher-student relationship is further aggravated by the advent of professionalization and the proliferation of commercialization. A professor is in control of such vast resources that his/her action can have a significant impact on a student's career and future prospects. Notwithstanding the tradition and the good-will of most professors and students, such an idealized "trust-based" system...