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According to Rudenstine, the abolition ofHarvard's mandatory retirement age--a change thatwas dictated by federal law--has allowed someprofessors to collect more than 100 percent oftheir ordinary pension rates when they actually doretire...
Relief workers tried desperately to help where they could, but the fervor of butchery grew too powerful, and people were dying too fast. Prison inmates were ordered to collect the corpses piling up in every corner of the capital. They came with Caterpiller tractors and shoveled the bodies into mass graves, sometimes thousands at a time. Without water or electricity and afraid to venture out for food, civilians huddled in their homes listening to the screams as soldiers moved from house to house, slaying whomever they found...
...first day of balloting (Monday, May 9, 1994), I had arranged for student volunteers to collect the ballot envelopes at the end of dinner and deposit them with a tutor or other responsible person in the house. Mr. Liston had announced to the Undergraduate Council the previous evening that the ballots would be secured in the office of the Dean of Students. However, Mr. Liston had not made such an arrangement, and so he personally approved my proposal when I spoke to him at the Union during lunch on Monday. Without such a precaution, any council member "tabling" would...
Gabay said the council does not collect keysfrom outgoing members, but instead periodicallychanges the office's lock. It has not been changedsince last semester...
...task force member talked of sorting through hundreds of cardboard boxes to collect a handful of relevant papers. Another involved in the search described the task as "Herculean...