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Middlesex County Assistant District Attorney Edward R. Bedrosian Jr. had argued that Gomes should serve three months in jail and Pomey 30 days. The charge, felony larceny over $250, carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison...
...students’ solipsistic desire to use college as nothing more than four years of resume building en route to Harvard Medical School or Goldman Sachs are more dire than might be immediately apparent. By refusing to allow themselves to let up, students are both failing to receive the maximum value from their education and may be imperilling their well-being. Provost Steven E. Hyman, former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, said that from a young age simply putting pressure on oneself to have a strong application for Harvard often “destroyed the joys...
...after decades of failed experiments with strict ideologies. This healthy approach is especially important for issues such as Kosovo. Remarking that “we cannot choose our neighbors,” Djindjic expressed in his characteristically optimistic style the hope that Serbs and ethnic Albanians can reach a maximum of common ground and build upon the common interest to join the E.U. If the countries of the Balkans choose the other path—chain disintegration of borders in the region starting with Kosovo’s independence—then they must suffer the consequences and say goodbye...
...Reviving the al-Qaeda - Baghdad link had a lot to do with Bush's efforts to follow a victory in the Congress with another win at the United Nations - a challenge that now preoccupies U.S. diplomats. To get the maximum number of votes in the U.N. Security Council, European allies, led by Britain, have been pressing Washington to give Iraq an option of forestalling war by cooperating with weapons inspections, a carrot before the stick. The Bush team is willing to go along - but not for very long. The White House circulated a draft resolution late last week that accepts...
...actors learning from others, displacing Harvard students from productions held at the University is hardly the way to help them improve their acting. If Harvard is unwilling to get rid of these interlopers altogether, it should at least scale back their participation to a more reasonable 20 percent maximum so as to retain the benefits of their participation while maintaining the Harvard character of its shows...