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...house. I know that Harvard students are given to melodramatic exaggeration of their neuroses, but retaining one full time resident tutor for every 20 students is excessive. One could make the case that resident tutors keep the peace and insure a modicum of discipline. But considering Harvard's dormant social scene, such a task could not keep more than one nights per week. Indeed, the place where I seem to run into tutors the most is on the keg line at parties...
...attended by as many as 300 clan elders, representatives of women's groups and Islamic mullahs. Over the objections of Aidid's representatives, leaders at the meetings agreed to remove technicals from the town and set up subcommittees to oversee security. "There is a popular demand that has been dormant for a long time," says Oakley. "We think that it is now ready to emerge...
...GENERAL'S DAUGHTER, BY NELSON DeMille (Warner Books; $21.95), a gaudy, cinematic thriller, is two or three levels better than routine, partly because the author's sentences march well. That never hurts. The setting is a dormant military base in Georgia just after the Gulf War. Officers worried about their careers are trying to look busy. Paul Brenner, a criminal investigator for the Army, is there to sort out the bizarre sex murder of Captain Ann Campbell, daughter of the base's commanding general and, not coincidentally, lover of virtually every man on the general's staff. Brenner, digging...
...countries have problems," concluded Thorsell. "Our prospects are better than our recent memory would lead us to think. We've got a more worthy basket of problems than a lot of countries." Especially now that the threat of national disintegration appears to have gone dormant...
Selene S. Ko '93 had a similar idea for re-shaping the dormant society...