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Several council members have publicly expressed serious reservations with the program. It's not that the Ivy Council is not a meaningful endeavor, but whether the benefits of sending representatives to the council can be justified by the weighty price tag. Currently, the council is strapped for cash--students recently rejected a referendum that would increase revenue from term-bill fees. As the number of student groups is increasing each year, the extra grand could go a long way toward making a tangible difference on campus...
...that can be viewed and appreciated by an audience of their peers in the Harvard community. For many, finding enough time, resources and publicity poses a problem. In hopes of broadening the opportunities for student playwrights, the Student Playwrights Project was recently organized. Cary McClelland '02 is heading the endeavor and, in his view, the Student Playwrights Project is an "an attempt to provide student writers on campus the opportunity to stage their work with minimum effort and maximum publicity...
...should preface this whole endeavor by stating that before Dec. 6, 1999, the only WWF in my vocabulary stood for the World Wild Life Fund. You know, that nice place that helps you save the unfortunate sooty terns and invertebrate spawning grounds in Tortuga and sends you posters of pandas? But since I have no idea where Tortoga is and had nothing else to do on a Tuesday night, I figured I'd go check out this other...
...worried that we can't pinpoint this beginning: the first labeling, the first frown, the first parody. The snowballing effect of reputation has a tremendous power to shape future endeavor. It is the power of junior high school popularity contests and the subtle consensus of entire disciplines, the power of suggestion and the slow crafting of taste. It remains to be seen whether it is possible to separate out the crucible where opinion is formed, to shape the sways of reputation, to find the voice speaking...
...world where over a billion people live on less than a dollar a day, we also have got to do our part in the global endeavor to reduce the debts of the poorest countries, so they can invest in education, health care and economic growth," Clinton said...