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University officials are currently meeting with DOL representatives to discuss Harvard's affirmative action record in hiring and to hammer out a "conciliation agreement" to resolve any problems DOL finds. DOL officials were unavailable for comment yesterday...
...turnout is good, for a Sunday afternoon in the middle of midterms. People have been trailing in and out to hammer and paint all day, as they always do the Sunday before a mainstage show goes up. During that day, the Day of the Put-In, cast, crew, friends and relatives come by to act as "larries"--christened, a techie explains, after a certain person's cousin Larry, who became an institution for the time he devoted to enthusiastic but unskilled labor...
...cast manages to hammer home Miller's point excellently, but this statement about American life seems slightly dated (although perhaps only to those of us who can barely remember back past the '60s). Miller tells us to be true to ourselves, to find our real vocation, and to avoid the dead end of the American business world. But Sartre is fading, and preoccupation with self-exploration has given way to less taxing concerns. No existential conundrums can grip today's imaginations; people have finished with searching their souls; it has gone out of fashion. Miller's presentation is emotionally gripping...
...this seems confusing at first blush, consider a few preliminary facts: Since 1931, Britain has not exercised any influence in Canada beyond, well, stirring the loyalists with a Royal Wedding or two. And since 1931, Canadian governments have tried unsuccessfully to hammer out an indigenous constitution acceptable both to the federal branch and the provincial branch. Trudeau, a former lawyer who has held power with the federal Liberals for all but a few months in the past 14 years, has long dreamed of enshrining a civil Bill of rights together with a constitution the country can call...
...game last November, but we must ask why anyone was allowed inside when there was even a chance that the Stadium might tumble down. Reardon inspires little confidence when he speaks of parts of the structure that "are so corroded that you can hit the steel beams with a hammer and it crumbles." If things have reached such a state, perhaps the 78-year-old stadium should be closed--at least temporarily--to make sure its occupants are safe...