Word: chapterful
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...regards to Asian-Americans. The history of Asian-Americans is one of an oppressed minority. One need only recall the conditions of intense discrimination and cruelty under which they helped build the West, or the living conditions of many inner city Asians today to see this. Title VI, Chapter 60 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 recognized Asian-Americans as a minority group--but Harvard didn't. It was only after a contested struggle by Asian-American students on campus that minority status was granted them...
...group of students trying to organize a chapter of the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) at Harvard will begin a door-to-door petition drive tonight in an effort to obtain the approval of half the undergraduate student body, a provision that Massachusetts PIRG requires before a chapter can be established on a college campus...
Coach John Walker's divers have been the strongest part of the Crimson squad this season, and the spectacular high board performances in both Friday's meet with Maine and Saturday's contest were just another chapter in a banner season for this group. All four Crimson divers--Toal, Schramm, Greacen and Craig Gavin--are headed not only to the Easterns, where they will be the key to Harvard's chances for victory, but also to the NCAA championships at Long Beach, Ca. in late March...
Computer intelligence is growing by leaps and bounds, with no natural limit in sight. But human evolution is a nearly finished chapter in the history of life. The human brain has not changed, at least in gross size, in the past 100,000 years, and while the organization of the brain may have improved in that period, the amount of information and wiring that can be crammed into a cranium of fixed size is limited...
...Huygen is not content to rest on subtlety and understatement, so he adds a final chapter to Gnomes that explicitly makes his point. In so doing he bludgeons us over the head with a simplistic sermon on "What We Should Learn From Gnomes." After reciting the familiar litany of human failings--wars, pollution, exploitation, violence, the gnome narrator concludes...