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...dedicated in 1878 as a remembrance of Civil War veterans, it included a tower composed of much more than the current cube with gargoyles. This projection stretched 195 feet into the air, making up one-third of the height of the entire structure. The building, designed by Henry Van Brunt and William Robert Ware, dominated the Harvard skyline long before the Science Center, William James Hall and Holyoke Center bullied their way onto the scene...
...staff, while well-meaning, has adopted a tone that assumes that the brunt of child care ought to fall on women, with the exception of monetary support...
...very telling of the objectivist cult-following that it should regard the poor and the unsuccessful (who are the brunt of their joke) as failures. In objectivists' eyes, the poor fail willingly because all people have and have enjoyed equal opportunity, have entered this world with equal freedoms to flex equal minds. They believe that every wealthy and successful individual is so because of his or her "productivity," that the uncreative and less intelligent and less talented should suffer for their fruitlessness, and ultimately, that our civil society should feel no obligation to them...
...subsequent debate over what percentage of the council's budget to allocate as grants for student groups has, in turn, taken a personal tone. Hyman, who has rightly supported increasing such grants for established organizations with a following, has borne the brunt of Coffey's personalized criticism. This, too, is unnecessary. The council has more important matters to attend...
Bill Jaeger, director of HUCTW, said the brunt of budget cutting should not fall on workers like Malin...