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...most compelling argument made in favor of growing the College is the possibility of adding more international students to give undergraduates more diverse perspectives on culture and scholarship. This is a laudable goal, but there must be a fine balance at Harvard between learning from your professors and learning from your peers. Striking that balance should take precedent over further “improving” the student body through internationalization...
Trouble is, say civil rights advocates, the bans are too vague and probably violate free-speech and privacy rights. Would a cop levy a fine for airing, say, an NC-17 flick like Showgirls or only for more explicit fare like Debbie Does Dallas? Republican Mark Norris, a sponsor of the Tennessee bill, has an idea but can't quite put it into words. Scooby-Doo, he says, is fine, but "if it's too Scooby, that's another matter...
Hahn, a television writer who lives in Los Angeles with his wife and business partner Melanie Ray, started making Caramel Sin, "a fine candy in a jar," and Cranberry Fool, a natural, cooked-fruit topping, as holiday presents for family and friends about 14 years ago. Encouraged by the accolades they received, he concluded that he was sitting on a gold mine. "One Christmas, when it got to be more than 300 jars, my wife said, 'Get it out of my kitchen,'" he says...
...learned from his early mistakes. Bill is innovative because he has a fine-tuned plan and doesn't vary from it. Now teams are starting to copy the Belichick model: Don't just go after the big-time free agents; find players who really complement your team. Rings spawn imitation. I've covered some 20 Patriots games over the last three years, and there is no doubt in my mind that those guys go into each game believing that when it comes to the Xs and Os, no one has a better plan. That gives a player a huge advantage...
With Radcliffe, the fear was always that she would make a Herculean effort for 95% of a race and then get scooped up at the end by someone with a better kick finish. So she said, "Fine. If my vulnerability is that I am not as fast over 200 m as some other athletes, then I'm just going to make sure that I am so far ahead of them that it doesn't matter." And that is what...