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AS A COSMETIC CHANGE, the asterisk is marginally worthwhile, and certainly better than the other changes proposed. Administrators and faculty should continue to think about the sickout problem though and the larger questions it poses about a Harvard education.
Literally coming apart at the seams, as her lawyer put it, O'Hare brought a $1.5 million suit against her surgeon, Howard Bellin. On the stand, O'Hare testified that the 1974 operation had reduced her from a self-confident, aggressive owner of her own employment agency, earning...
The meeting lasted far beyond the two hours allotted, and a kosher lunch had to be brought to the Cabinet room. When he emerged from the session, Carter admitted: "Important issues remain to be resolved." Said Begin of the talks: "very serious, very friendly." Earlier the Israelis had been saying...
Van Deerlin questions whether the commission merely wants one unwieldy bureaucracy in place of another: "Maybe the change would be more cosmetic than real."
In so doing, they emphasized the failure of the two-year-old student attempt to reform from within the College's disciplinary body. The Faculty Council's decision, to reject proposals establishing an appeals board and banning hearsay evidence from CRR hearings vitiates the entire reform effort, leaving only cosmetic...