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...inconsistency: Harvard must pursue full legal punishment for drug offences because “it’s the law!” But why should the College put itself front line in the Government’s disastrous “war on drugs?” The concept of zero tolerance is both unfair and ineffective: It does little to dissuade drug use, and potentially carries hugely disproportionate penalties—prison and a permanent criminal record—for personal drug use. After all, the campus’ few potheads and even fewer hard drug users rarely...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel | Title: Drug Policy? What Are You, High? | 10/10/2006 | See Source »

Prepared Table Charter School in Houston seemed like the perfect solution for at-risk youths. Long under the country's microscope for subpar public schools, Texas embraced the concept of using taxpayer money to set up these specialty schools, or charters, as a means of overhauling a struggling state educational system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking Charter Schools in Texas | 10/4/2006 | See Source »

...everyone I’ve talked to seem to have liked the concept,” Adler said...

Author: By Andrew Nunnelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sites Spar to be like Craigslist | 10/3/2006 | See Source »

Verba sought to revolutionize and redefine the concept of the digitized library catalog through his vision to outmode traditional paradigms of searching such as HOLLIS and WorldCat. This vision culminated in the birth of the Google Print Library project (since renamed the Google Book Search project), which in its culmination will not only enable users to obtain the customary title, author, publisher, or ISBN of a book by simple query, but also allow them to search within the content of all scanned volumes for keywords, sometimes returning even full passages from the text in question. The intended goal...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Scholastic Maverick | 10/3/2006 | See Source »

Human perfection. Whether we like it or not. Justice, peace and virtue. That concept of the beneficent, omnipotent will of God and the need to always submit to it, whether we like it or not, is not new. It has been present in varying degrees throughout history in all three great monotheismsJudaism, Christianity and Islamfrom their very origins. And with it has come the utter certainty of those who say they have seen the face of God or have surrendered themselves to his power or have achieved the complete spiritual repose promised by the Books of all three faiths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Not Seeing Is Believing | 10/2/2006 | See Source »

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