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...Report Urges Study Abroad” (News, Apr...
...column “Senior Gift Minus” (Apr. 6) Jason Lurie did raise some legitimate concerns about the shortcomings of Harvard’s administrators, teachers, and facilities. But in his editorial, Lurie sounds like a spoiled rich kid who gets very angry when he’s not taken care of properly. If any of the starving and oppressed Sudanese he defends so proudly could come study at Harvard, I doubt they would feel so wronged about not having cable television and better meal plans. If Jason hasn’t learned to be gracious and thankful...
...editorial “Unhappy Harvard” (Apr. 5) points to the social dissatisfaction facing Harvard undergraduates. Even some of the faculty, remembering our own long-ago college experiences, are surprised by the poverty of partying on this campus. Yet it is unfair to claim that “Cambridge lacks a social scene for students below or just above the legal drinking age—namely undergrads,” and it is downright peculiar not to mention Boston as a possible destination for socializing...
...Carolina Miranda reported for an item I wrote in the Apr. 4 issue of TIME, AAR is enjoying monthly double-digit ballooning in ad sales revenue - a rate that Jon Sinton, AAR's president, expects to continue for the next two years. Commercials for national brands like Geico and Volkswagen can now be heard along with spots for Verbal Advantage vocabulary builders (one of Limbaugh's early sponsors), sexual potency pills and "clinical hypnotherapist" Wendi Friesen's promises of happiness, weight loss and freedom from nicotine addiction if you'll just let her talk in your sleep...
...Kanimbla - equipped for the rapid transport of soldiers, medics and heavy machinery - was heading back to the area. Medical teams raced for its Sea King helicopters, which began scouring Nias for badly injured survivors and ferrying them to the ship's hospital for treatment. On the afternoon of Apr. 2, one of those helicopters crashed into a football field near the remote Nias village of Aman Draya, killing six naval and three air-force personnel. Two of the dead were women. Two male survivors were pulled from the burning wreckage and airlifted to the Kanimbla. Witnesses told abc-TV that...