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...taking four extra courses seems dubious. Rather then encourage students to invest more time or thought into their decision, the delayed choice deadline will likely only delay the time when serious contemplation occurs. Harvard students often do not get serious about decisions until deadlines near—they crack their books open a day or two before their finals, and meet Monday night deadlines at 11:59 p.m., if that. Sometimes serious thought about concentration choice does not even occur until after students have put their name to a choice. A wholly inadequate system of non-concentration advising only makes...
...clash between Anderson's family and the FBI is the latest example of the Bush Administration's post-9/11 push to crack down on leaks of sensitive information. A CIA official was fired last week because the agency says she leaked information to the press about secret CIA prisons for alleged terrorists; at the same time, the FBI is continuing its probe into who released details about an undercover domestic eavesdropping program run by the National Security Agency. Last month the National Archives halted an effort by the U.S. intelligence community to make thousands of declassified documents secret once...
...Friends with benefits sounds good on paper, but never works in practice. You know what else sounds good on paper? Communism." —Dr. Drew Pinsky, at last week’s Trojan College Media Roundtable, attended by FM crack reporter Lena Chen. Thanks for the civics lesson, Pinsky...
...Alas, nothing quite so subtle. Upon closer inspection by a crack team of Crimson interns, it has become apparent that Sept. 11 was...(drum roll)...a Tuesday...
...Washington, where Kings, Prime Ministers and Presidents are routinely received with equanimity bordering on boredom, Teng's [sic] arrival provoked the keenest excitement. Not since Nikita Khrushchev flew in from Moscow to take a crack at détente 20 years ago has a state visit aroused so much exhilaration ... Teng's determination to modernize China's backward industry by the year 2000 led him to request tours of the advanced technology production lines for which U.S. industry is celebrated. During a 24-hr. swing through Georgia, he will visit the Ford Motor Co.'s assembly plant near Atlanta. His tour...