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While the Administrative Board has been a perennial source of frustration among Harvard undergraduates, few students have opted for an alternative body of adjudication. Just recently, however, it came to light that the Undergraduate council is working with the Dean’s office to search for four students to sit on the Student Faculty Judicial Board, a disciplinary body established in 1987 as an alternative to the Administrative Board. The SFJB exists specifically for cases for which the Administrative Board has no precedent and for which the outcome could have community-wide repercussions.Yet in the last 21 years...
...minimally affected by the day, according to General Manager Denis E. Black—a normal occurrence for the store, he said. Their male clientele was most likely completing holiday shopping for the family on Black Friday, and would return to J. Press the next weekend, Black said. In light of economic developments, Cambridge business operators were marked in their optimism. “In this economy, if you break even you’re ahead of the game,” Hassan said...
Amid the economic downturn, Americans are buying fewer new cars and light- trucks, or even used cars. In recent weeks, GM announced a third- quarter loss of $2.5 billion. And the major automakers have stirred a vigorous debate over how much, if at all, the federal government should be involved in rescuing yet another ailing industry...
...peephole and couldn't see anything. The smoke was unbelievably thick. I thought now I was in serious trouble, and got ready to escape. I took the door key and a torch, and got down on my hands and knees, and went out. When I saw the [flickering] light [from] the door, I figured if the lights went out I wouldn't be able to get back into my room. So I put a wet towel in the door, and tried to get out again. I only made it past two and a half rooms before realizing it wouldn...
Lwanga is the biggest catch among the 500 or so court convictions SmartWater says it has secured so far - a fairly modest number for a company that has been around since 1995. But that's not counting those who simply come clean when the UV light finds them out, says former police detective Phil Cleary, SmartWater's co-founder and ceo. In any case, he says: "We are not a thief-catching company or a property-recovery company; we're selling a deterrent...