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...truth is, Harvard has a serious prejudice against the humanities and an even stronger prejudice against the less-canonized humanities, like Folk and Myth or Film Studies (which doesn't even exist as a concetnration). Let me amend this: Harvard has a serious prejudice against anything that brings immediate pleasure to the academic and doesn't follow an established path to future success. Computer science concentrators have their Microsoft jobs lined up. Biochemistry concentrators proceed directly to medical school. And if it doesn't have that kind of destined security, at least the English concentration has "centuries of academic respectability...
RUDY GIULIANI Campaigns all out, but can't amend the charter. Lose the 'tude, or legacy will be Senator Clinton...
...possibility that concerns Seton is the prospect that John A. Burton '01 will try to amend the term-bill legislation...
Active in neighborhood groups, the Harvard mathematics preceptor is the editor of the Cambridge Civic Journal. Winters wants to amend zoning laws to allow more housing units, invest in long-term projects for a new library and police station, and preserve the system of professional city management and the proportional representation election system...
...current expenses, it will leave you less money to retire on. Why isn't the same true of the Social Security trust fund? First, because as a legal matter, Social Security payments are a government obligation completely unconnected to the size or existence of the trust fund. Congress may amend future benefits, and the size of the trust fund might influence its decision whether to do so. But neither the trust fund's size nor what the money is invested in is affected in any way by the government's non-Social Security budget. If the government were to default...