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...Already, public figures have supported an Olympic boycott. Representative Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican, has put forth a resolution in the House recommending a boycott. Recently, Steven Spielberg, angry over China’s lack of action on Darfur, resigned as artistic consultant to the Beijing Games. Mia Farrow has praised Spielberg’s action, and termed the games the “Genocide Olympics.” Reporters Without Borders supports a boycott because of China’s jailing of dissident journalists. These people have all recognized that participation in the Olympics is a tacit endorsement...
...There’s a lot of information in this budget,” Kelley said. “I can’t put any of it in context.” He also said he was a “bit disappointed” in the lack of discussion on the implications of the district’s Parent Attitudes Study done last year. The results of the study, released in May of last year, reported that 32 percent of parents who withdrew their children from the Cambridge Public Schools system did so because of a perceived...
...QRAC, and there are other, nicer gyms that are perhaps a bit further away. Students here are for the most part extremely tolerant, and they were likely just as angry about how the situation was handled—for instance the particular hours selected for the closure,or the lack of prior notification—as they were about the closure itself. While the QRAC closure is certainly a campus story worthy of the front page of this newspaper, an op-ed or two, and a breakfast-table conversation, the fact that that national newspapers have been making such...
...According to a heedless survey of less than four of my classmates, this was a grievous error. For these few, Harvard is still less “chill” than it is poor or populistic. Many may submit that, more than anything else, Harvard is defined by its lack of perspective on the simple pleasures, its utter divorce in stress and striving from the Frisbee-hurling good nature that has come to epitomize other, more likeable schools...
Hampered by a lack of money and difficulties in attaining a permit, the church has made slow attempts at rebuilding, resulting in a “quasi-structure,” according to trip co-leader Jessica C. Frisina...