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Former council member Mark P. Parisi '93 said he doubts Beys can fully shake his dubious reputation and improve the esteem of the oft-maligned council...
...order the house itself. All told, Sears sold 100,000 prefabricated models, and most of them are still standing and occupied today. Some of the items advertised in the early years seem, well, unseemly now. Before the Food and Drugs Act of 1906, the catalog listed a number of dubious medicinal aids, including laudanum, a notoriously addictive, opium-based headache remedy and sedative. Pistols and rifles were aggressively marketed for years. The big book luxuriated in excess. Who had ever thought of buying a car by mail? The 1910 catalog offered an automobile called a motor buggy -- manufactured by Sears...
...whether Harvard should engage in this dubious boycott, there can be no question that to do so would only hurt the University. By not accepting the gift, Harvard will not be able to turn back the clock to November 3 and change the vote...
...celebration was held at Revolution Books, a place with a curious history. The JFK Street store has had a dubious arson and a bomb scare in the last few years, and it recently did a very rare thing for businesses--publicly displaying posters which, rather than encouraging purchases of their merchandise, actually asked for donations...
...kind of national black hole, sucking up ever greater proportions of the federal budget. As debt payments crowd out other spending, the annual deficit is making it increasingly difficult for the government to provide the basic services that Americans expect. But Figgie overstates the problem -- using some highly dubious statistics in the process -- and understates the solution. The debt must be dealt with more calmly but also more forcefully, in a way that does not plunge the economy back into recession, or worse...