Word: diplomas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Vrioni wants a Harvard diploma the way she wants democracy; passionately, desperately, believing the enormous force of her personality will make it happen. She's still waiting to hear from the admissions committee. "I know myself--I can achieve anything in the world that has to do with intellectual stuff. I trust myself," she insists...
...least one parent knew enough Harvard history to make comparisons with past demonstrations. From the so-called Diploma riot of 1961 to the student for a democratic Society (SDS) sit-in at University Hall in the spring of 1969, David Wizansky '60, father of Sasha R. Wizansky '95, knows his Harvard protests...
...okay; I'll have a Harvard degree. In Linguistic. And maybe someday my diploma will be a collector's item...
...name on women's diplomas implies that they attended Radcliffe College, which they did not. The joint name on every undergraduate diploma would signify that the fully combined institution encompasses the ideals of both men's and women's education...
Last week a federal appeals court rearranged that report card: Steffan got an A; the military got an F. After concluding that Steffan's constitutional rights had been violated, a three-judge panel ordered that the 29-year-old former midshipman be granted a diploma and commissioned as a second lieutenant. As for the military's aversion to gays, the panel offered a rebuke so stinging that there is question whether the Pentagon's new policy of "Don't ask, don't tell" will be able to withstand constitutional scrutiny. "America's hallmark has been to judge people by what...