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UNDER the heading of "Government" in the Fields of Concentration booklet is the following message: "Almost all who have written a senior thesis agree in regarding it as the high point of their undergraduate education. Last week, the Department adopted a minimum GPA requirement (11.5 out of 14) for students who wish to write theses, beginning with the Class of 1994. The entry in Fields of Concentration should be amended to read: "But if your grades aren't up to par, you don't deserve this high point...
Since labeling every door in Harvard's building might prove too expensive, Dunne added, a Braille booklet describing the floorplans of major buildings could be the best solution...
...Germany to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. The Missouri entrepreneurs who imported the debris swear that it comes from demolished portions of the Berlin Wall. Just in time for the Christmas shopping season, they will split it into 2-oz. chunks to be sold, along with an "informative booklet and a declaration of authenticity," for $10 to $15 in gift shops and department stores...
...many areas where museums can no longer buy," says James Wood, director of the Art Institute of Chicago. "It's bad for the museums, but it goes beyond that. It's bad for the country." The symbol of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's plight is an annual booklet that used to be titled Notable Acquisitions. In 1986 it was renamed Recent Acquisitions because, as the museum's director Philippe de Montebello wrote, the rise in art prices "has limited the quantity and quality of acquisitions to the point where we can no longer expect to match the standards...
...schools ever were islands of safety within otherwise violent neighborhoods, they certainly are no longer," warns a new booklet of advice from the federally funded National School Safety Center at California's Pepperdine University. The center says 3 million crimes a year occur on school grounds, with 183,590 injuries reported in 1987. Another study estimates that on a typical day at least 100,000 U.S. pupils carry guns, and the firepower is getting heavier...