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...American community activities can be "tipped" in. The Crimson is correct in noting that this kind of tip is not as quantifiable as some other kinds of tips, but a significant number of undergraduates are here in part because of such considerations. Furthermore, although it is not possible to distinguish precisely between the effects of the various forms of special consideration outlined above, it is clear that our recruitment efforts are at least partly responsible for the great increases in the numbers and diversity of Asian American students at Harvard and Radcliffe...
...were presumably less anal than they are today, dirt was considered a positive adjunct of museum art; it lent mellowness and venerability. Ryder's studio was filthy, a pack rat's cave. "It is appalling, this craze for clean-looking pictures," he once complained. "Nature isn't clean." To distinguish between the dirt, the dust, the brown varnish, the pigmented glazes and the goo underneath and then to stabilize the surface to preserve some notion of Ryder's intentions have always been a conservator's nightmare -- and a losing battle as well. One may be quite sure that whenever...
...founders of Thatcherism, Howe charged that her resistance to the European Community's economic and political integration was running "serious risks for our nation." He called on his Conservative Party colleagues to distinguish between "loyalty to the Prime Minister" and "loyalty to what I perceive to be the true interests of this nation," a conflict that Howe admitted he had wrestled with "for perhaps too long...
...efficient way of disseminating that most prized of 20th century commodities: information. Today more money is invested in direct-mail pitches, promotions and appeals than is spent on advertising in magazines or on radio or network television. The ensuing competition drives direct-mail marketers ever higher (and lower) to distinguish their message from the rest. To target potential customers more accurately, they compile and swap lists that provide increasingly detailed information about individual consumers, a practice that raises citizen concerns about privacy...
Last week's report promises to change all that. It could spur the development of an effective test that would distinguish between those children who need drugs or other therapies and those who do not. More important, a better understanding of the physical roots of hyperactivity could lead to improved treatments that might relieve children of their metabolic problem -- without giving large numbers of them powerful drugs...