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Each month in University Hall, about 100 professors convene amidst the somber and dignified busts of their predecessors. Only a few undergraduates are allowed inside these meetings of the full Faculty--but what is discussed there often directly impacts undergraduates' lives...
...Even amidst the troubles of President Clinton and the saturation of the airwaves with talk of impeachment and resignation, comments by political leaders on serious issues facing our nation and state can and should resonate with voters, not just with those who of us who collect humorous quotations...
Gelb was the metropolitan editor at The New York Times in 1968 when Lukas won a Pulitzer Prize for his writing on the murder of Linda Fitzpatrick, a young, upper-class woman from Conn. who began a dual life amidst New York City's drug culture...
...reality was that all of us had grown up. And we knew it. Amidst all the camaraderie and laughter, there was a shared realization that, indeed, things could not always stay the same. We knew that as we grew older, opportunities to go bowling together would become much scarcer. And no matter how hard we tried to conceal it, we all knew, deep down, that we were new people with new friends and new lives...
...Amidst charges that the election was unfair, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) announced on Commencement Day the names of five alums recently elected to the Board of Overseers...