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...debate is all the more vexing because it involves trying to outguess Mother Nature -- a futile endeavor, as evidenced by the wild unlikelihood of devastating rain in July, which nonetheless happened. The consistent pattern of late 20th century flooding in the U.S. has been a decline in deaths proportionate to the area inundated, but a startling rise in property damage, due to increased building and farming on the floodplains and inflation in dollar values. Beyond that, all is as uncertain as the exact height of the flood crest and the precise time it will pass St. Louis. A 1955 book...
...athlete errs, it's the sportswriter's responsibility to explain the "what" and "why," to dissect the moment and explain its significance. To do otherwise, to let an important--albeit unpleasant--moment pass without articulating its meaning, would deny the essence and demean the importance of the entire endeavor...
Back in C.S. 148, soon everyone realized it was simply unrealistic to try to build a microprocessor. We were further discouraged when told that last year some people did undertake such an endeavor, but the team just "disintegrated after a while," according to the instructor, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Woodward Yang, who has taught the course since last spring...
...with the decision two weeks ago to replace Symonds, the technical director for students at the Loeb Drama Center and the Agassiz, many students fear theater at Harvard will become an even more difficult endeavor...
...think in terms of the College, the University should absolutely create a dramatic arts curriculum. It's as essential as any other academic endeavor," Shettle says. "I don't know why the administration is so reticent on this topic...