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...Currier’s summer tenant, the Graduate School of Education—Currier students have an opportunity to finally break free from the suffocating lasciviousness that previously defined them. With narrower mattresses, Currier can stand as an equal with such greats as Dunster, Winthrop, and Lowell, whose residents maintain celibacy by sleeping in wobbly bunk beds wedged into walk-through triples. If the river houses hope to maintain their scholarly edge over the formerly unbridled Currierites, they will need to invest in their own spoon-free mattresses. In the meantime, Currier residents must keep in mind: it?...
...favored population increase-people had flooded in to take jobs in booming wartime industry. It was policed by a force infinitely more corrupt than the norm and it had a thin, mysteriously wealthy upper crust capable-or so the fictioneers liked to think-of doing anything required to maintain its status. And that says nothing of Hollywood, whose morals everyone had suspected for decades. How closely this fictionalized portrait of a seamy, teeming Eden turned anti-Eden actually matched reality is a good question. But it sure made for good reading (and viewing). The "Black Dahlia" case actually derived...
...editors: Katherine Gray reported on a recent feature of medical journalism (“Journal Has Docs Disclose Conflict,” news, Aug, 11)—in an effort to maintain scientific credibility for their publications, editors have increasingly insisted on disclosure of the funding sources and individual intellectual contributions of medical authors. From such disclosures it quickly becomes apparent that much “research” is simply a feature of a broad continuum of pharmaceutical and medical device promotion. The research is designed and processed by industry; the FDA accepts the selective data; the audience...
...before him his father and forefathers, and I take serious objection to your claim that Israeli setters built their illegal settlements on wasteland. They have built them on well-nurtured soil on which my ancestors shed sweat and blood. And the fact that these settlers have labored relentlessly to maintain this stolen property does not render null and void the fact that these territories were forcefully acquired and populated in defiance of explicit and unambiguous provisions of international and humanitarian law. Peace between us Palestinians and our Israeli neighbors can only be achieved when mutual trust prevails, and that will...
Following the College’s decision to dismantle its early admissions program, current high school juniors, the first students who will apply under the unified system, say the change could prove costly by turning potential applicants away from Harvard and towards schools that maintain the program. Those who apply early to schools generally enjoy a higher rate of admission, an advantage that those seeking entrance into Harvard’s Class of 2012 will not benefit from. For the Class of 2010, Harvard admitted 21 percent of its early applicants, but accepted only 9.3 percent of its regular applicants...