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...stations on the continent, including the only encampment at the South Pole. In 1959 the U.S. and eleven other nations agreed on a treaty banning military activity and all nuclear materials there. They and eight subsequent signatories became in effect the continent's government. Members included the countries that lay territorial claim to parts of Antarctica -- Argentina, Australia, Britain, Chile, France, New Zealand and Norway -- as well as the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which do not recognize the sovereignty of any nation on the continent. Among other things, the group regulated scientific investigation and enforced a moratorium on commercial...
Although the Senate Intelligence Committee found that the administration violated the Constitution, public scrutiny instead focused on what former Sen. John Tower's commission concluded--that the problem lay in something called a management style. Process, process, process...
...here lay the basis of our education's demanding nature as well. In teaching us approaches, our courses and tutorials act with the faith that, once inspired, we will continue to read and think on our own. Indeed, they assume that we are now properly equipped to begin the endless process of educating ourselves...
Although Anderson had decided to lay aside singing when she arrived at Harvard, she soon changed her mind Anderson tried out for the Opportunes freshman year and went on from there to join Robespierre, a pop/funk band which had become one of the more prominent bands by the time she joined. By the start of her junior year, Anderson's skills were so widely renowned that she was the sole undergraduate chosen to sing with the Boston Pops at Harvard's 350th stadium celebration...
...initiation bacchanal last February. On that occasion, 39 pledges at two of Princeton's notoriously wet eating clubs had wound up in the infirmary or the hospital after having been led, blindfolded, through a rite at which club members helped to pour liquor down their throats. One student lay in a coma for 24 hours...