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Seton said he was "thrilled and touched" by Stewart's endorsement and promised if elected to extend the council's student services focus to include more far-reaching reforms like those of University Health Services and advising...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seton, Redmond Get Stewart's Endorsement | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...Appetite for Wonder, resonates on a slightly more optimistic note. Although it is not an apologia for Dawkins' other books, it is a manual on how to read them. Dawkins contends that people habitually misconstrue science as deconstructive and demystifying. The average person, whose science background might not extend beyond a high school lab, has been programmed to set up a dichotomy of two domains for knowledge. Literature and the humanities are viewed as infusing wonder into the natural world, science as sucking it out. And so, people might feel "depressed" when they read something like The Selfish Gene...

Author: By Joanne Sitarski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: When the Two Cultures Go to War, Science Loses | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

Michael R. Brauwerman '99, cochair of Hillel's Forum Committee, said it was exactly this desire for greater awareness and understanding between the various faiths that prompted his committee to extend an invitation...

Author: By Mary C. Cardinale, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Eck Discusses Religious Pluralism in Hillel Speech | 12/3/1998 | See Source »

...wine. Its operations span four continents and nearly two dozen countries and range from cargo ocean liners to sugarcane. And like other profitable businesses, it collects subsidies--or, more accurately, corporate welfare--from local, state and federal governments. Indeed, officials trip over one another in the rush to extend taxpayer support to Seaboard--from the Federal Government's Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC) in Washington to the Kansas state agency responsible for industrial development, to the utility authority in little Guymon, Okla. Wherever Seaboard is, there is a government throwing money at it. Money the company uses to build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: The Empire Of The Pigs | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Form then on Harvard turned the game over to big men Fisher and senior center Bill Ewing. Fisher dominated the inside all night as he took advantage of Holy Cross' weak interior defense and capitalized for 11 first-half points as harvard began to extend its lead...

Author: By Ron Romero, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Hoops Repels Crusaders 84-70 | 11/25/1998 | See Source »

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