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Harvard's academic schedule is consistently different from that of other schools. And we're usually on the losing end: our last final is at the end of May, we begin after most of our friends have already gone back to school and our winter breaks are marred by impending final exams and term papers. Yet perhaps the most frustrating aspect of Harvard's schedule is that it is so difficult to understand why the administration subjects us to it. Despite the enormity of the task, a few hardy students recently responded to the daunting question...
...Party has voted to allow its enemy, Sinn Fein, into the region's nascent government without first making a least a token effort to disarm its military wing, the IRA. The condition, which has already rubbed Sinn Fein members the wrong way, is that the IRA will have to begin disarming by January 31. "We've jumped," Unionist leader David Trimble said in a statement aimed at Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams. "You follow...
...launching of a children's book fits well with Reach Out and Read's mission. Established in 1989, the program asks doctors to encourage parents to read to their children, starting at the age of six months until the children begin school. The program also asks doctors to give parents one children's book at each checkup...
...particular, students complained that administrative action did not begin until it was clear the assaults were part of a trend...
...Well, to begin with, the Scopes trial is not the great fable the rather fictional Inherit the Wind made it out to be. The instigators of the trial were not bluenosed know-nothings wanting to persecute some poor teacher for teaching evolution. They were officials of the American Civil Liberties Union so eager for a test case to overturn a new Tennessee law prohibiting the teaching of evolution that they promised to pay the expenses of the prosecution! The A.C.L.U. advertised for a volunteer and found one John Scopes, football coach and science teacher, willing to take...