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...placement alongside “American” in the current department name, but the language. This may appear insignificant, but there are larger principles at stake here. Without precision, language loses its meaning. In his famous essay, Politics and the English Language, George Orwell commented that a lack of carefully chosen diction and imagery marked the fundamental problem with modern writing. By finding a name that more accurately represents its function, Harvard’s English department places itself at the forefront of the battle against careless usage. In addition, as E.B. White noted in The Elements of Style...
...first game, a 2-0 loss, the Crimson’s lack of production at the plate robbed senior pitcher Brad Unger of a win. The righty threw an impressive seven-inning complete game, allowing only two runs on five hits and three walks while striking out six, but Harvard was unable to muster any offensive output as Lions pitcher Joe Scarlata allowed only two hits in his shutout effort...
...This lack of flexibility in spite of the looming Olympics is worrying, says Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher with New York City-based Human Rights Watch. "Especially now with the Lhasa protests," he says, "they are facing a pressure-cooker period." Beijing will have to keep a lid on Tibet. But Beijing's problems are not confined to Tibet. There have also been rumblings of dissent in Xinjiang province, populated largely by the Uighur Muslim minority group. Protests by thousands of Uighurs, the Muslim ethnic group that speaks a Turkic language, over religious issues were reported by rights groups...
...freshly-minted Class of 2012 may have been obscenely selective, but its members will curse their own good fortune when, as sex-starved sophomores, the absence of new transfer admits will lead to a complete lack of fresh meat. They will spend their senior year morosely re-reading their high school yearbooks and listening to the 2012 equivalent of Evanescence while sitting in the dark with the shades drawn. They will wonder why Harvard administrators thought it was OK to convert their suite’s bathroom into a double. They will grin and bear the pain of using...
...said that about 36 percent of college presidents were dissatisfied with their boards in terms of their giving, and about 60 percent were dissatisfied in terms of soliciting donations from other people. These percentages are in line with past surveys. But this year, administrators cited the trustees’ lack of knowledge as a major concern, he said. While all schools depend heavily on their Boards of Trustees for their fundraising efforts, colleges with larger endowments are more independent of immediate financial concerns. Harvard has consistently raised a substantial amount of money through fundraising efforts, averaging about $600 million...