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...study abroad in a broad range of locales. Schools like Yale and New York University already recognize this. They ban students from traveling to dangerous areas within other countries instead of imposing blanket bans on countries themselves. The OIP and the Harvard Office of General Counsel (OGC) must either conform to these more reasonable and widely-adopted standards for international travel or provide a transparent explanation for why they will...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: The Best Insurance | 4/19/2005 | See Source »

Because my roommates and I are fundamentally kind of lazy (hence, I suppose, the lack of post-graduate plans), we intend to base our central characters on ourselves and on people we know. While brainstorming over drinks, though, we realized that to conform to popular conceptions of Harvardians—and we are unabashedly aiming for a mass market with our book—our hero-students would have to be a lot more ostentatiously smart and accomplished than we are. It would be useful, for instance, if they knew Latin, and also kung fu. These are not accomplishments...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Fictional Harvard | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

...when people pay attention to questions of technology policy, they don’t do so by virtue of morals, or even idle curiosity. They do so because they are surprised to find that the rules that govern the world behind their computer screen simply don’t conform to their basic intuitions about governance and ethics...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline, | Title: Analogies Gone Wrong | 4/5/2005 | See Source »

...Harvard wants to respect the community, whatever they propose has to conform with the guidelines,” he says. “That’s what that purpose is. That has to be finalized...

Author: By Joseph M. Tartakoff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Allston at a Crossroads | 3/24/2005 | See Source »

...surprising new trend in Supreme Court thinking. Overseas legal practices were also cited by the court in the 2002 ruling on the mentally retarded and in a 2003 decision overturning a Texas law banning gay sex. For his part, Scalia blasted his brethren for suggesting that "American law should conform to the laws of the rest of the world" and pointed out that the U.S. has unique legal traditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Young to Die | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

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