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...greatest contributor to greenhouse-gas warming. Maybe if Gore would recognize that we cannot control global warming as much as we think, we could set aside such a relatively unimportant issue and move the crucial crises, such as genocide and starvation, to the top of the political agenda. DONNIE BOYCE Lake Forest...
Leaders of the Committee on University Resources (COUR), the group gathered that morning, say that the majority of alumni and donors were attached to the agenda put forward by former President Lawrence H. Summers—a plan that includes a major expansion into Allston, a focus on undergraduate life and teaching, and an emphasis on research in the life sciences. Members of the COUR’s executive committee who spoke to The Crimson about the meeting say leaders of the group want a president who is committed to Summers’ vision...
...Allende had been able to continue to advance his extreme socialist agenda, he could well have caused far more death and misery than the 3000 people Pinochet is responsible for murdering. Human rights groups have regularly denounced Pinochet’s torture and execution of his political opponents, yet the same organizations often overlook Cuba’s then routine torture of tens of thousands of its dissidents. Not to mention the atrocities committed in the Stalinist Soviet Union, Maoist China, or other socialist Latin American governments. It is important to remember that communism can be very dangerous?...
...physical fitness, Ann Georgi says it is a cerebral occupation as well.“Figuring out horses, training them, competing, is tremendously intellectually challenging,” she says. “You are constantly trying to communicate with a partner who’s got his own agenda.”But despite the demands of the job, Cloos says she is hoping to “shoe” until she retires.“I am not thinking about doing anything else,” she says. “I can’t imagine...
...measure requiring evaluations of all teaching fellows (TFs) and teaching assistants is on the agenda for Tuesday’s Faculty meeting—along with another round of debate over the succesor to the Core Curriculum...