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Thirty-five of last year's 88 Undergraduate Council representatives are running for reelection this year. The following is a list of the number of full meetings they missed. A fraction indicates the representative was absent for part of a meeting. (Members may be ejected from the assembly if they miss more than four of the weekly meetings in one semester.) The statistics were provided by the Undergraduate Council...
...feel a little strange giving you advice because we haven't completely figured out Harvard ourselves. Even as seniors, we have experienced only a fraction of the courses, extracurriculars and social opportunities here. The array is bewildering, but remember that this embarrassment of riches means that you can craft any college experience you want...
...aren't conservatives these days clamoring for the restoration of a free market instead of clamoring to open up fragile strips of America's coastline? What sense is there in wrecking Alaska to get at $30 or $40 oil when it flows out of the Saudi desert for a fraction of that cost...
...attack against even a fraction of these targets "would cause the Soviet Union to cease functioning as a society," says Stanford professor Scott Sagan, a former adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Yet arms expert Janne Nolan of the Brookings Institution contends that the "American political leadership is not aware of the enormous destruction envisioned in the military plans." The point is illustrated by official estimates of what would happen to the U.S. if the Soviets launched a surprise attack of 3,000 warheads, a mere quarter of their inventory. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says that between...
...cost of animal reserach by an "order of magnitude." With certain exceptions, such as the cost of purchasing purpose-bred dogs versus those procured from shelters, the costs of procuring and caring for animals, adjusted for inflation, have not increased significantly and still make up only a small fraction of total funds allocated for research, the bulk of which continues to go to salaries and institutional overhead...