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...recent e-mail that it will be "a truly exciting event" and that it was intended as "an end of year "party." The organizers plan to distribute awards in the categories of sports, drama, dance, community service and media/publications. Nominations were made by students. Still, the awards have rightly drawn criticism for being, in practice, poorly executed and, in theory, antithetical to the spirit of extracurricular activities at Harvard...
...Saturday night, and soon I'm talking to a half-dozen prospective members of the class of 2002. Once I identify myself as a Crimson reporter, they crowd around me like some sort of deity--it gets to the point that another few people join our circle, drawn over by the size of the crowd. "What's going on here?" a late-arrival asks upon entering the group, as if worried that he's missed the beginning of some crucial, unlisted pre-frosh event...
...second major advantage of a fully-funded system is that it provides individuals with a greater rate of return. A brief example, drawn from work by William Beach and Gareth Davis at the Heritage Foundation, will help me to explain this point. Consider an average household consisting of two 30-year-old working parents with children. In today's dollars, that couple will pay approximately $320,000 in payroll taxes over their lifetime, and will receive $450,000 in benefits during their retirement. This represents an annual rate of return of 1.23 percent. In other words, the Social Security system...
...also driven by a desire for self-discovery. Soon, in fact, his lab will publish a paper about a gene that makes it harder or easier for people to stop smoking. Judging by the pack of cigarettes poking out of his shirt pocket, Hamer would seem to have drawn the wrong end of that genetic stick. He has tried to stop smoking and failed, he confesses, dozens of times. "If I quit," he says, "it will be an exercise of character."And not, it goes without saying, of his genes...
...special trips for kayakers, beginners and advanced, and courses about the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest and how the salmon industry has affected the environment, culture and economy. Summit faculty--which this year includes experts from the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service--are drawn from leading teaching and research institutions in the Northwest...