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...Administration is sufficiently conscious of its obligation to protect and preserve Harvard's historical architecture. Philip Parsons, director of planning for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, told Harvard Magazine in January, "We intend to preserve the richness of the original detail, and to add a contemporary flavor." The firm overseeing the redesign, Goody, Clancy & Associates, is well qualified to maintain a balance between old and new to judge from its renovation of Weld Hall and the Busch-Reisinger Museum. Further, the architectural plans will maintain the Union's elaborate cornices and grand doorways...
...course, class limitations still play an active role in courtship games. At times, watching this Pride and Prejudice is not unlike reading the wedding pages of the Sunday New York Times, always a banquet of telling socioeconomic detail (alma maters, parents' occupations). You remember that most people travel in small orbits and that the chauffeur's daughter doesn't marry Harrison Ford. That's Austen: romantic comedy with a bracing slap of social truth...
...exceptional case to serve as an indictment of the entire nation's child-welfare systems. Instead of presenting a scholarly discussion of the current child-care crisis, with appropriate reference to relevant statistical information, your article plays to the emotions of your readers by re-creating in graphic detail the horrible tragedy of this poor child's needless death...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Billing documents from the Rose law firm show that Hillary Clinton, while at the firm, worked on a land option that she later told investigators had been someone else's project. In addition, the records detail twelve phone conversations that may have concerned the deal. Such revelations are raising questions in Congress and temperatures at the White House. "Thank God this is happening in January and not in October," said one White House official on Saturday, in a reference to the potential impact on the upcoming election. TIME's James Carney says "The Watkins travel memo may have...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Hillary Rodham Clinton's lawyer released 116 pages of legal billing records that detail work the First Lady and her then-colleagues at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock performed for Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, a key focus of the Whitewater probe. Coming on the heals of another sensitive Whitewater memo written by a former White House aide, the records were described by Sen. Alfonse D'Amato as the "second miraculous discovery within the past 24 hours." It does fit a disturbing pattern, notes TIME's Michael Duffy. "This phenomenon of disappearing then suddenly reappearing documents...