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Paul M. Weissman '52, an official in a New York investment banking company, made the gift to help students develop a first-hand knowledge of international issues, according to a statement released by Harvard...
Which is OK by me. My job is to present the moments of the 1994 Harvard sports scene for you, the readers, not to turn the spotlight around on myself, the columnist-writer-golfer-fan. I may contribute a first-hand golf team report during the year, but only in search of a new slant on sports journalism. And hopefully, when all is said and done after reading period of January 1995, y'all will be able to say you enjoyed our ride as much as I will have...
Beckett is eventually fired from the firm on the pretext of incompetence, and engages Joe Miller (Denzel Washington), a charismatic ambulance-chaser, to claim wrongful dismissal on his behalf. Miller is staunchly homophobic, and it is only when he sees first-hand the discrimination which Andrew faces in a law library that Miller can sympathize and agree to represent him. In the process, Miller carefully reconciles his own loathing of homosexuals with his clear feeling that the law was broken when Andrew was fired. Miller grows realistically, not Hollywood-miraculously, never completely reversing his views but admiring Andrew and having...
...have seen very find (read: accurate and revealing) presentations on cult activity at Yale, with first-hand accounts by several persons directly involved. This particular article is anything but scrupulous in getting at the facts. Superficial journalism is worse than no journalism, and the article in question is a case in point. Though it seems doubtful that TM would lead to a debacle such as the Branch Davidian conflagration in Waco, Texas last summer, the slow disintegration of ego and self-esteem occasioned by the mind control of more "peaceable" cults can prove to be a living hell to those...
Scientists routinely claim that professional misconduct -- plagiarism, for example, or tinkering with research data to make the numbers come out right -- is rare. They're wrong, says a shocking poll conducted by American Scientist: 43% of students and 50% of faculty members report having first-hand knowledge of some sort of scientific impropriety...