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...Harvard swimmer to win an NCAA swimming title since 1961 (Berkoff won the 100-yd. backstroke in 1987), after entering the international scene in 1988, after breaking the world record in the 100-meter backstroke, after winning a gold medal in Seoul, after setting an American record two weeks ago, Berkoff is almost there...
...School Professor Derrick R. Bell noted at a rally held two weeks ago, it is not the responsibility of students to motivate such change. Leadership, inherent in the meaning of the word, should come from the top. The Harvard administration needs to make a more concerted effort to rectify this intolerable situation...
...another gripe: three years ago in Providence Harvard lost in the NCAA finals for the same reason, physical fatigue, because the Division I schools don't have the guts or integrity to tell the arena owners that they will no longer put up with this nonsense of playing one semifinal on Thursday night and the other on Friday night. Not long ago The Globe revealed that the Thursday night winners had won 19 out of the previous 22 NCAA finals. I predict that Harvard will be finalists again this year. We better start praying that they get the Thursday night...
Resentment toward the novel and its Bombay-born writer has been building among Muslims for several months, and at least 15 persons have died in violent riots in India and Pakistan, where the book has been banned since its publication several months ago. Many Muslims believe that it defames both the Koran and the Prophet Mohammed and that it portrays the twelve wives of the Prophet as prostitutes...
...weeks ago I underwent, for the fourth time, that most charming of Harvard's freshman initiation rituals, the computer portion of the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement...