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...idea that there was interbreeding between prehistoric Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens. Archaeologists merely uncovered a single skeleton of a child with a mixture of modern and Neanderthal features. To deduce that this indicates a peaceful coexistence or gradual immersion of Neanderthals into the Homo sapiens gene pool is groundless and inconsistent in the face of DNA testing recently conducted. The Neanderthals, like other hominids, are no more. Perhaps mankind's evolution was a more violent affair than we would like to believe. Yet even today the killing continues. KEVIN M. KIRBY Sydney...
...biting critique of the Harvard billboard culture and delivered an honest statement about many Harvard personalities. Despite her candid arguments, I am disappointed with her forcing an unfounded marriage between the Harvard-Radcliffe Kendo Club and pornography. Certainly, just as Horn would not--even in jest--draw any groundless association between blatantly sexual advertising and any other campus group, she should not have done so with the Kendo Club...
...biting critique of the Harvard billboard culture and delivered an honest statement about many Harvard personalities. Despite her candid arguments, I am disappointed with her forcing an unfounded marriage between the Harvard-Radcliffe Kendo Club and pornography. Certainly, just as Horn would not--even in jest--draw any groundless association between blatantly sexual advertising and any other campus group, she should not have done so with the Kendo Club...
...member of the panel that voted for the measure in 1996, Dershowitz stressed the need for specific rules governing matters of harassment, as opposed to the mostly unwritten guidelines by which they were previously judged. He asserted that such safeguards would actually prevent individuals from being accused on groundless claims...
...money were anything other than a means to some end. Though earning money is necessary, especially in light of the considerable economic constraints that many face, the risk of buying into this money-as-God mentality is no less than the risk of stranding oneself in an ultimately groundless existence...