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...million Americans bought their dogs Christmas presents last year. A woman I know throws her dogs a Bar Mitzvah every year. That's not even correct on a religious level. People knit their dogs things. Now I've never knitted anything, but it looks like a pretty serious endeavor. If getting married meant knitting something instead of buying a ring, there would be even more out-of-wedlock births...
...convey the human excitement that makes real the progress of science. We created two gatefolds--a time line of the century's discoveries (page 109) and a chart of how computing and communications converged (page 141)--as a reminder that great thinking is part of a continuous group endeavor...
Free trade may not be a magic cure-all. Promoting labor and environmental standards abroad can be a worthwhile endeavor. However, sacrificing world growth to promote the interests of the steel industry is not. If the U.S. is truly concerned about its industries and workers, the solution is not to protect them from the marketplace in which they have to compete. Stephen E. Sachs is a first-year living in Grays Hall...
Other efforts are being made in other quarters to this end. For example, this week a nonprofit endeavor known as the Fair Labor Association (FLA) urged universities to join in its efforts, and Harvard has agreed to do so. The FLA may or may not prove itself able to devise effective solutions, but we support its attempts even as we pursue other avenues. We don't know where answers will eventually be found, but we are determined to pursue these important questions as seriously as we can. Allan A. Ryan Jr. is an attorney in Harvard's Office of General...
...Instead, a financially strapped Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) relies on its alumni. Last year, the club sent out a newsletter, asking for support in exchange for free tickets to Loeb Mainstage productions. But according to Michael P. Davidson '00, HRDC president, this endeavor has not yielded much thus far. The organization has received enough alumni donations to cover the costs of the newsletter but not much more...