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Harvard formed the Independent UniversityInitiative (IUI) with three other schools in aneffort to bring new standards to the factorymonitoring process. But SAS members have objectedto the IUI's employment of Price WaterhouseCoopers, an audit firm, to do the monitoring.Students were not notified in advance of thedecision, and say they have concerns with thefirm...
President Rudenstine was talking about how college was a "journey" and an "adventure." You may have arrived at Harvard with a firm idea of who you are and what you will become, but by the end of first semester, you might discover that you no longer want to be a doctor, or a businessperson or "God help us, a lawyer." Instead, he explained, you might discover a passion for Akkadian texts or for the life and times of airborne spores. And while you might have trouble convincing your parents that airborne spores really are your calling, you should follow...
...firm believer that cancer will not be cured per se,"he says. "Rather it will be managed much like we now manage tuberculosis or diabetes. In sum, if [anti-angiogenesis therapy] is not a cure it will break the back of the disease...
Hennefeld has no firm plans for post-graduation. He may take a staff position at United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), an organization which has grown out of the numerous college protests in recent years. He might also do research for one of the larger labor unions...
Thus far, Dole has avoided taking firm stances on many controversial issues--extolling traditional Republican issues like cutting taxes and maintaining a strong military...