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...bright young Bostonian women were pounding on the doors. Eliot could barely imagine the consequences of trying “…to teach together sets of persons, who like young men and young women, differ widely in regard to sensibility, quickness, docility, and conscientiousness.” Lesser institutions, like Boston University, might try “social experiments,” but Harvard knew better...

Author: By Laurel T Ulrich | Title: A Historian Making History | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...case of Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, who was supervising the squad that killed two dozen civilians that day, Ware recommended that Wuterich be charged with negligent homicide. That charge would allege that the 27-year-old enlisted Marine wrongfully killed civilians as a result of recklessness. Even this lesser charge, noted Ware, would be difficult to prove to a jury given the lack of evidence in the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Be Punished for Haditha? | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

Whether or not surgery proves definitively to be more effective than other prostate cancer treatments - researchers won't know without further study - it's not without serious risks. "[It] has frequent adverse effects like impotence and urinary incontinence," Rapiti says. "For sexually inactive, older patients these repercussions may have lesser impact than in young, sexually active patients. Our study adds information on long-term survival but, unfortunately, not on quality of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery May Be Best for Prostate Patients | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

...Though he did recurring TV guest bits, George didn't make the big bucks playing a dad or a lawyer on one of those long-running series whose residuals have provided silk cushions for hundreds of lesser actors. Few actors can accept only the roles they love in guaranteed masterpieces. George was a working actor, who took projects as they came his way. He once observed with a grunt and a smile that of all his work in the '80s he was probably best known as Tom Hanks' scowling, finally humiliated future father-in-law in the rowdy film Bachelor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's a Friend of George Grizzard? | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

Next, the “ethnic” foods in the dining hall must be done away with, as they force our students to interact with lesser countries neglecting their own great heritage. French pastries should be replaced with Boston cream cake, Thai spiced chicken with Memphis spiced chicken, and skim milk with whole milk, all in an effort to cut down on un-American influences...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: God Bless America | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

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