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First, a disclaimer: there are lots of annoying people at Harvard. There’s That Kid in Section who takes copious notes on every week’s reading and asks if the term paper can exceed the set page limit, and those oblivious types who insist on sitting in the aisle seats of soon-to-be crowded lecture halls to cause maximum inconvenience to everyone else. Worse of the lot, however, are the semi-spoilt brats who complain about not having money to buy their grande skim lattes. I know this, because I am one of them...
...speech on Jan. 27, he said the government's obsession with the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi and the "grievance industry" of treaty claims risked creating "a racially divided nation, with two sets of laws and two standards of citizenship." A National government, he declared, would insist on "one rule for all." It would end special treatment for Maori, abolish the Maori Development Ministry and the seven parliamentary seats reserved for Maori, purge laws of references to the treaty, wind up the treaty claims process as soon as possible - and return the foreshores to Crown ownership...
...cook at home, and if I'm going to pay good money, I want someone to do the cooking for me." What's more, do-it-yourself dining isn't cheap. At the Minturn Country Club in Minturn, Colo., Kobe beef costs $49.95--uncooked. Still, restaurateurs insist that the customer knows best. "Who knows what to them is rare?" says Mikulic, owner of Vinoklet. "This way, if they screw it up, I get no complaints." Back at Chung Kiwha in Florence, patron Puckett sees it this way: "We don't have to clean...
...infections and not for colds or the flu, which are caused by viruses. Once you start taking an antibiotic, you should always take the full course, even if you start feeling better before finishing the regimen; otherwise you are just adding to the resistance problem. And please don't insist that your doctor give you an antibiotic when it isn't necessary. Many doctors will cave under pressure, but you shouldn't put them in that position. They really do know what is good...
...They insist that they are not here because of major problems with their former colleges. Saha speaks fondly of the close friendships she made at Wellesley and Hsu reminisces about a time when Thursday night was a part of the weekend. Most say that Harvard has simply proved to be a better fit, and has provided the kind of resources and environment that other universities can?...