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...most recent victim of internal division has been the council's "Harvard Census 2000." The mainstay of Driskell's platform, the census would have been a way for the council both to gather student input and to convey legitimately that input to administrators. But this admirable project, which would have done much to restore much of the council's credibility, was met with stubborn resistance by council conservatives. Although the project withstood a funding challenge, these council members--led by those who voted earlier to remove Burton--managed to seriously curtail the project's visibility. Now, the council expected...
...Paris Peace Conference. Twenty-one nations gather in Paris to resolve issues from World War II. United States tests two atom bombs at the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific...
Some books of short stories, such as Joyce's Dubliners or Hemingway's In Our Time, are patently organized around a unifying subject or mood. Other collections simply gather under one set of covers whatever their authors have been writing since the last time their works were similarly bound together. Carol Shields' Dressing Up for the Carnival (Viking; 210 pages; $23.95), her third book of tales, is of the latter, grab-bag variety, offering 22 pieces, almost all of them culled from previous publications. And yet the result is not as random or eclectic as might be anticipated. Shields, whose...
...continent to take up residence in other parts of the world have been matters of debate. The conventional wisdom had long held that Homo erectus, the immediate ancestor of Homo sapiens, made the exodus about 1 million years ago, after developing relatively sophisticated stone tools that enabled him to gather food more efficiently during his wanderings...
...exactly is the moral meaning of a crowd? Does a crowd have claims to legitimacy? Does it have more political significance than, say, a Zogby poll? If one person expresses a strong opinion on a subject, does the opinion become 200,000 times more valid if 200,000 people gather in the same place to proclaim...