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Seven members of the Harvard community were among 55 researchers elected Tuesday to the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences...
...clear and valuable standard for the behavior we expect from elected officials at all levels of government. But it would also further detach Americans from Washington by making voters feel that their only tie to power--their votes--could be nullified in fuzzy circumstances by another, intensely partisan branch of government...
...Other places have realized that Columbus Day is not about the victory of the West but about the loss of lives and cultures important to this nation," said Claire E. Brillembourg '01, co-president of the Harvard branch of Amnesty International...
...EXECUTIVE BRANCH...
This chatty smorgasbord is nominally about Cecilia Bartoli, but the greater part is a hilarious collection of anecdotes, gossip and shrewd observations concerning that unique branch of humanity, the opera singer. Tenors are uncommonly stupid; divas, when they are not scarfing down pasta, are outrageously unreliable. The imperious troublemaker Kathleen Battle, feeling chilly in a limo in Los Angeles, is said to have telephoned her manager in New York City and ordered him to call her driver to ask him to turn down the air conditioning. A nervous Deborah Voigt, waiting backstage for her entrance, absentmindedly ate a prop chicken...