Word: guarde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rumors have surrounded Mona A. Khalil '88 for as long as she has been at Harvard. When her name comes up in conversation, one may discover she is a member of "Arab royalty," her father is an oil sheik or that she has a personal body guard. Khalil, however, laughs at these suggestions, seeming genuinely surprised that anyone would fabricate or believe such fanciful stories. Brushing aside these tales, Khalil and her friends portray her as a typical Harvard student, not the pretentious, exclusive person she is rumored...
...council's agenda must be overhauled in order to effectively guard student interests and back student efforts. As a nominal representative, the council has an entree to meetings with top administrators; but because it sought to avoid taking stands on controversial political issues, these meetings have effectively relegated important issues to Yard protests. In order for these contacts to be effective, the council must show that it is actually acting on the students' mandate. If the council is to be a catalyst, rather than a hindrance for change, members should be elected more for their platforms than for their popularity...
WITNESS Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle's newfound admiration for Harvard's Kennedy School of Government--after, he said, years of believing the K-School was to politics what a K-Mart security guard is to policing. His opinion changed after reading about the K-School's plan to give "Officer of the University" status to a Texas couple in return for a $500,000 "gift." Barnicle then decided that the K-School would be right at home in the world of the State House...
After a storm of protest over the so-called zero-tolerance policy -- under which Brobdingnagian yachts were confiscated if lilliputian amounts of marijuana were discovered on board -- the Coast Guard and the U.S. Customs Service have decided that perhaps they can tolerate a trace or two of illicit drugs on the high seas after...
...what was billed as a "refinement" of the controversial program, Coast Guard officials last week reiterated that the Guard's job is to interdict vessels suspected of smuggling drugs into or out of the U.S. Officers will no longer seize vessels in international waters if only an amount of illegal drugs small enough to be consumed before the boat enters U.S. waters is discovered...