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...hangs a photograph of Reeb and a smiling Eleanor Roosevelt. The topic of her verse--the mountain's beauty, the nobility of the pioneer gold miners who wrested their destinies from it--is a variation on an old frontier theme. Were she merely a wistful ex-schoolteacher, one could dismiss Reeb as a member of a familiar but vanishing species: the Western romantic...
...although most of these protocols fall into the can't-hurt-could-help category. Where he may get into trouble is when he wanders farther still, uncritically endorsing treatments such as cranial manipulation that seem like folly even to many alternative-medicine believers. For skeptics looking for reasons to dismiss Weil, this kind of at-the-fringes medicine provides more than enough...
...putting himself out there much more than I've ever seen anyone do at Harvard before," Saunders said. "It'll be really easy for people to dismiss the piece as being offensive and in-your-face...
...other business, the commission decided to dismiss a complaint introduced at a Feb. 25 meeting against the Harvard Faculty Club...
...those at Harvard were quick to dismiss the validity of the survey, which is based on interviews with students and administrators at 300 colleges...