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...interests. "Japan pays nearly 20% of the U.N.'s budget, which [it says] argues strongly for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council," says Jeff Kingston, a professor of Japanese history at Temple University's campus in Tokyo. "But China's Security Council veto can block Japan from membership for as long as it likes. So do you think visiting Yasukuni is advancing Japan's interests...
While shoppers with COOP membership numbers look forward to receiving rebate checks each year, a new COOP program now offers members the chance to donate their rebates to aid hurricane relief on the Gulf Coast. The COOP has also agreed to match all donations up to $50,000. All money raised will be distributed to Harvard’s Phillips Brooks House Association (PHBHA) and to The MIT Public Service Center. According to General Manager Allan E. Powell, so far The COOP has collected over $34,000 from rebates, and will match that amount and then distribute the money. Powell...
...time. Not many men can print that Barbra Streisand’s nose “towers like a ziggurat made of meat” without getting sued. Careers turned on his acerbic tongue, and enmity followed it. The New York Drama Critics Circle voted to refuse him membership in 1969. Actress Sylvia Miles once overturned a plate of spaghetti onto his head at a restaurant. Theater critics and actresses who often sparred could come together in agreement one point: they all detested John Simon.Yet here he sits, 80 years old and perfectly arranged from tie to penny loafers, facing...
...resist giving preference to older or more moneyed groups. Instead, all groups should be forced to make a case for why their function requires a location in the Yard. Subcommittee members should be especially wary of using group size as a metric, as it is extremely easy to inflate membership numbers.There is no way to placate established student groups who may be displaced by this process other than by maintaining the current, unfair status quo. But McLoughlin and the College must do a better job in the future of communicating with all student groups, including ensuring that they are kept...
Student groups choose performers that their membership will like, so there are rarely concerns about missing the mark on student interest...