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There remains, however, the cohort of student groups who currently hold precious office space in the basements of Yard dormitories. These organizations—including the mammoth Harvard International Relations Council (IRC)—will be evicted once the renovations of the Hilles are complete. Understandably, the IRC and other basement-dwelling groups are peeved at being kicked out of their central locations and forced to move to the distant suburb that is the Quad. They complain that the conversion of their basement offices into, among other things, social space for the freshman class—as has been...
...Crimson editorial said that one of Bok’s highest charges would be “to overcome the mammoth negative Pusey legacy,” referring to Bok’s predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey ’28. Pusey faced particularly strong criticism in 1969 for calling police to respond to a student occupation of University Hall...
...hundreds. It still sounds like a long time, but, says Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton, "that comes to a couple of feet per century, and that?s more than society is equipped to handle." It doesn?t, moreover, take into account the two mammoth ice sheets of Antarctica, which pack about 20 and 200 feet of potential sea-level rise, respectively, if some new process is discovered that speeds their disintegration. Given what?s being reported in Greenland, the fact that nobody knows what that process might be should be little comfort...
...very important source of revenue for Tanzania and constitutes its largest export to the European Union. In the old continent, almost two million people enjoy Nile perch fillets each day. On the other side of the world, the same number of people starves in Tanzania. To carry fresh fish, mammoth Russian carrier planes depart from Mwanza Airport in Tanzania and arrive a few days later eager for more. The marvel of foreign currency creates a market for security guards, who risk their lives for a dollar a night, and for local prostitutes, who cater to the lonely plane pilots. After...
...literally wastes of space and money. So it was that first thing Monday morning, Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, the chairman of the Senate subcommittee on federal financial management, signed a liability waiver and joined high-ranking postal officials on a 45-minute walking tour of the mammoth mothballed structure. "The federal government has no complete record of what properties it owns or what their condition or availability is," declared Coburn, who also held a formal committee hearing on the issue that same day. "We need to be better stewards of the taxpayers' money," said Coburn, just after completing...