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...essays included in the pamphlet distributed to entering first-years by the Freshmen Dean’s Office is Emerson’s “Self-Reliance.” The message: take heed and trust thyselves; against the influence of others, rely on and cultivate your own mind. While this you-can-do-it-if-you-believe-in-yourself attitude might be valuable advice for first-years—suddenly small fish in a very big pond (Want to play hockey? So what if these girls are Olympians? You too can give it a shot...
...that the travelers, the first of whom went missing in mid-February, were kidnapped by Islamic extremists. MEANWHILE IN ITALY ... Saints They Ain't Italian police are scouring the convents of northern Italy looking for four nuns involved in a hit-and-run accident in which they failed to heed a stop sign and crashed into a Mercedes. The victim, an elderly Bergamo shopkeeper, was uninjured...
...Summers-provoking campaign in the pages of the magazine. It seemed very unlikely that the president of the world’s most prestigious university, a former Cabinet member, a man profiled by the likes of “60 Minutes” and The New Yorker, would pay heed to a semi-weekly barrage of juvenile insults (“You’ll be begging for hippies to take over your office when we’re done with you!”) and insulting juvenilia (see illustration of Summers, paunch out, barraged by tennis balls) from...
Parents implored the committee to heed their protests...
...students, faculty and administrators of many universities realize, promoting interaction between students of divergent backgrounds and viewpoints is an essential part of higher education. Diversity fuels debate and challenges students to think more broadly about the world in which they live. Hopefully, the Court will heed the advice of Summers and Tribe and uphold the constitutionality of Michigan’s admissions policies...