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This week, the $40 billion man, BILL GATES, will testify for the first time before Congress. Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee to address Microsoft's allegedly anticompetitive practices, Gates will try to bury the impression that he disdains the "other" Washington and its institutions. To help mask his well-known contempt, Gates, who has complained that committee chairman ORRIN HATCH has targeted him, has been rehearsing his testimony in front of a "murder board" of advisers. Gates will also subject himself to a day of glad handing, pleading the company's case in one-on-one meetings with Senators...
...rate, personality matters most. Or does it? C. E. Ted Wright '01 claims, "Behind perhaps a mask of academics, there are plenty of people who are easy-going, interesting, et cetera." Despite overheard cries of "What men?!" and "I wish I were a lesbian because there are no guys here," (conceivable alternatives) most Harvard women will concede under pressure that there are attractive men somewhere on campus. After some prodding, men will admit likewise about the female classmates. So why do students have such trouble finding and maintaining healthy relationships, when in so many other aspects of their lives these...
...category "Asian-American" (as with "Hispanic" and "black") is not a homogeneous mask. It is a term used for convenience that ought not displace the diversity in the group. While often it is easy to look at our peers and see a representation of a "model minority," Asian-Americans are far from a monolithic block. Filipino-Americans, the second largest Asian American population in the U.S. after those of Chinese descent, are under-represented at Harvard. Hmong-Americans, which constitute the fastest growing Asian-American group in the U.S., have a poverty rate of 64.5 percent--greater than any other...
...fracas. He said he would join in some antidrug campaigns but refused to condemn drugs outright. "I am definitely going to change my life-style. But I will not change my friends," he said. "I will stick by them." He added, "I may have to wear a gas mask from...
...hard and shiny and has a mysterious power to ferret out, and then manifest, the worst fears of those who fall under its spell. If you have, say, a special aversion to sea snakes, then by golly, they're going to start hurling themselves at your face mask...