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...Parris did not hold a Harvard degree. The late historian Samuel Eliot Morison, who wrote book after book on Harvard's first 300 years, stated that Parris may perhaps have attended the College for a time around 1672-74, but was not a graduate. Harvard was at times lax in its early attendance-keeping, but it was always meticulous in recording all its degree recipients...
With the ominous words "abused," "image" and "appeared," Gibbon conveys in brief most of what had gone wrong with Rome. Several decades of relative peace in the 2nd century left the army lax and indolent. It was a time of great prosperity, and excess wealth had its customary enervating effect. But it was the lack of supporting structure behind the impressive forms of government that doomed Rome, Gibbon believes. He traces this lack to the very first Emperor, Augustus, who ruled from 27 B.C. to A.D. 14. Augustus' predecessor and adoptive father, Julius Caesar, had been assassinated...
...would've been more at home if I went to Harvard now," Robert C. Garrett '71, a reporter for the Boston Herald-American, said last week. "I don't consider myself arch-conservative, but I was concerned by the lax attitude in terms of education. A lot of the anti-war, counter-cultural protests rubbed off a bad way. People had the feeling that school wasn't that important...
Urso, a stocky consensus All-American for what seems the last century, spent the afternoon trying to defy the laws of physics by threading his swarthy body through hordes of defenders. He was no match for Cornell's lax trio. And eventually, the laws of Mother Nature caught up to him in the form of an immoveable object. In the waning seconds, three riders converged on Urso, who was trying to advance the ball upfield, and put him flat on his face, a la Richard Dunn. Urso never saw McEneaney feed French for the Big Red's final tally...
Dole and Nyswander suggest that the clinics could be salvaged if bureaucratic controls were lifted. But other experts argue that the controls have been far too lax. Dr. Robert L. DuPont, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, notes that there were at least 800 methadone-related deaths last year involving "street" methadone-a fact the authors ignored. Thus there may be increasing clamor for other ways of dealing with the nation's estimated half a million heroin addicts. Among them: a new crackdown on dealers and "cold-turkey" detoxification of addicts-a tough but effective tactic (TIME...