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Long ago, down south in Atlanta, Kimble Poon `99 learned how to shoot a gun. But little did he know that it would come in handy in the mass slaughter of his fellow Mather House residents. As a member of the Mather HoCo, Poon felt that he should join the game last year. And after attacking his assassin matches with gusto, he will graduate with two team wins under his belt...
However, all Harvard students have the choice to cross-register for classes at MIT, or even other schools of the university, some of which are located in far more "inconvenient" locations. In choosing to join ROTC, students accept the commute as an inconvenience in exchange for the opportunity to serve as a cadet or midshipman, and this is certainly a noble choice. Similarly, students who wish to cross-register at another school accept the commute as a cost of participation. However, while gay and lesbian students are allowed to register for most classes at MIT, they do not have...
...preliminary complaint, a one-page document, charges that Harvard offered untenable contract proposals and tried to encourage employees to join another union...
Chinese premier Zhu Rongji leaves the United States on Wednesday without the economic prize his country has sought for more than a decade: a deal with the U.S. to join the World Trade Organization. What makes the failure particularly frustrating is that ?both sides were 95 percent in agreement over the outstanding issues,? says TIME Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz. What was missing was the handshake -- that is, the trust. ?The economic differences were mostly bridged," says FlorCruz, ?but not the political problems.? China agreed to lower most of the trade barriers the U.S. has long sought to pierce...
...additional requirement proved to be a deal-breaker for this round of negotiations. ?The Chinese believe they are already taking a big enough risk -- competition -- by seeking to join the WTO,? says FlorCruz. They are not willing to also shoulder the risk of a U.S. veto over their economic decisions. Meanwhile, the administration -- already on the defensive over allegations of Chinese nuclear spying and Chinese campaign contributions -- is concerned about getting burned in Congress over anything Chinese and wants to look tough. U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky showed up on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to sell the American hard line...