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After his recruiting trip to UCLA and seeing first-hand the academic concerns of a student-athlete there, Rueb made his decision...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: Rueb's Tennis Journey Has Just Begun | 5/2/1995 | See Source »

...gave a first-hand account of life in a concentration camp, his family's death, being a dentist in Auschwitz, were he had to extract gold teeth from corpses. "We were no longer people in Auschwitz. We became numbers. [I was] number 141129," he said, pointing to his left forearm where the number was tattooed...

Author: By M. ALLISON Arwady, | Title: Harvard Mourns Victims of Holocaust | 4/28/1995 | See Source »

...article Posner points out the improbable evolution of our conception of juries. As first conceived, jurors had the advantage of first-hand knowledge of the participants and served as good representatives of the moral sense of the community. This was the meaning of "a jury of ones peers...

Author: By Bruce L. Gottlieb, | Title: Twelve Angry Football Fans? | 4/28/1995 | See Source »

...Posner's first-hand experience as a judge--and his inarguable brilliance--means that we should listen to his reason about why juries sometimes fail. As a legal scholar and a judge, he has a privileged standpoint from which to argue that a jury of laymen cannot be expected to understand the complexities of certain types of civil cases...

Author: By Bruce L. Gottlieb, | Title: Twelve Angry Football Fans? | 4/28/1995 | See Source »

Smoking in dormitories is bothersome and injurious for nearby non-smokers. Second-hand smoke has been proven to be just as dangerous as first-hand smoke in many aspects, including the incidence of lung cancer. The College currently mandates that non-smokers prevail in cases of conflict, and that hallways stay free of second-hand smoke...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Currier Advances On Smoking | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

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