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Harvard's arrogance toward the military and its men and women is an important facet of the ROTC debate which must be addressed. Not merely the standard left-wing, anti-military sentiment of many students, but the subtler arrogance of the contemporary Harvard mind--an arrogance which infects even the pro-ROTC side of the debate...
...facet called for the city to provide links to any candidate," while the other prohibited all links on other Web sites to candidates, he said...
...principal trouble spots are the shock-absorbing disks between the vertebrae and the facet joints, at the back of each vertebrae, that act as brakes to rotation. Each disk is a round ligament, made up of an annulus, which is like a multilayered collagen basket that absorbs rotational stress, and a lighter-density liquid nucleus that absorbs compression. The layers of the annulus are woven for maximum absorption. But it doesn't take much to tear this basket. "You can tear the annulus with no more than 3[degrees] of sudden loaded rotation," Watkins says. "If the disk ruptures into...
Snyder said great care was taken to ensure thatevery facet of the proposal had unanimous supportfrom the working group's members, and studentswere given the loudest voice in the group...
Another interesting facet of Williams is the Junior Advisor system, which is like the Residential Advisor system, but cooler, because they don't tell on you. First-year students live in "entries" which consist of about twenty freshmen plus two Junior Advisors (JAs). JAs are chosen through a competitive process to act as big brothers and sisters for their entry. They probably won't beat you up like your older brother did, though...