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...previously all-white freshman dorm. Lowell was a self-described "friend of the negro," but this request seemed clearly beyond the pale. "I am sure you will understand," wrote Lowell to the concerned father, "why we have not thought it possible to compel men of different races to live together...
...reputation. Although AlcoholEDU is tedious, it serves as an introduction to healthy drinking habits for the many freshman teetotalers entering Harvard. Mr. Knudson argues that harsh penalties would better control binge drinking, but he is looking myopically at the short term. What happens to students who live in a world of draconian punishments for binge drinking after they graduate from college? They may well resort to the bottle when times get tough. DAPA and AlcoholEDU instill safe drinking habits in students, lessons that last well beyond college...
...think that people tend to live in the moment and don’t evaluate all the potential consequences especially if the initial effects are so satisfying,” Salau said...
...people that have been evicted from their homes in the service of national development projects, since the advent of truly representative democracy in 1994. South Africa’s constitution defines housing as a human right, but as much as a quarter of South Africa’s population live in “shack dwellings” where large families live in cramped squalor underneath thin scrap metal with intermittent access to clean water and power. To make matters worse, the Slums Act, passed in 2006, provided legal authority to sentence those who resist eviction by up to five...
...infusion of Washington into Westminster doesn't stop there. Dunn, Knapp and Sheehan have all been hired to prepare Cameron and Brown for Britain's first-ever televised debates between party leaders (the Liberal Democrats' Nick Clegg will also take part). The first will be broadcast live on Thursday. Britons, used to abrasive political debates that routinely see the Prime Minister and leader of the opposition swapping contemptuous jibes while backbenchers heckle gleefully, may notice an American politesse to the TV confrontations. That's because the party leaders agreed to participate only if the broadcasts followed the deferential model...