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...telling when Mom and Dad will be home, but this way Lauren at least gets to stay a little normal a little while longer. "I like sleeping over at a friend's house for a month. It's fun. But it's not home," she says, not finding fault, just stating a fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An American Family Goes To War | 5/24/2006 | See Source »

...duly noted by the librarians, professors, and deans of Harvard in reports written to Lowell and other administrators. They described the first reading period as a success. “I cannot say too much praise of the way in which students worked and the almost entire absence of fault-finding and underhand practices, in spite of the crowded condition of the room,” wrote William C. Lane, College Librarian, in a Feb. 4, 1928 letter to Lowell. His missive also included statistics on the number of employees hired for overtime and explained the cost...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Constructing the Period | 5/18/2006 | See Source »

...resort town is dirt-cheap, but Cannes has been getting more expensive - cher, as the French say - through no fault of its own. The Euro, whose exchange rate five years ago was under a dollar, is now a pricey $1.28. Don't despair. You can find many an excellent dinner for less than $40. And your transportation budget, except for getting from the Nice airport to Cannes and back, is exactly zero. Every hotel is within walking distance from every screening and nearly every party. For the rare out-of-town soiree, you ride with the other press types...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Things We Know About Cannes | 5/17/2006 | See Source »

...practice tolerance toward untruth. Dismissal of historical fact, degradation of interpretive principle, plain concepts purposefully eroded, impudence toward empirical sciences; bare and slanderous celebration of ignorance itself—we call these things “politics” and change the subject. We are polite to a fault, and beyond. Each day the student, the dean, the professor make an intellectual choice: Veritas, or your manners;,Veritas, or your professionalism. Which’ll it be today?Jim von der Heydt is Lecturer on History and Literature and is the outgoing Resident Dean of Winthrop House...

Author: By Jim Von der heydt, | Title: A Jeremiad for an American School | 5/17/2006 | See Source »

...fault lies not with women, but with institutions. The working world is still a man’s world in which women have only recently been let in, like children entering a theme park but finding many of the rides off-limits to them...

Author: By Ramya Parthasarathy | Title: Let Them Eat Cake | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

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