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These services came with the tuition, but I'm only now realizing that I paid for them. Before now, I saw these benefits as privileges of membership in the Harvard community. And I have to say I'm addicted to them. I'll admit that I didn't actually write those tuition checks; my father did. He and Harvard conspired to make me feel like I belonged here, like it was my home, not a four-year dork resort with great courses and an e-mail address to boot. I practically cried this morning when I swiped...
...pile preys on this fresh undergraduate addiction. Right on top is a flier with a picture of the richly and traditionally appointed Harvard Faculty Club on the cover. In brackets below the photo: "warm welcome". It's almost too good to be true. For a mere $60 introductory membership, I can join the Harvard Faculty Club. This most elite institution will welcome me to sit by the hearth. But does this cheapen Harvard? I wonder what the professor who gave me a "C" in statistics would think to see me lounging around his club? But I momentarily considered joining...
Since the Lampoon's membership is comprised of Harvard students, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) has been working with the CFD to resolve the matter...
...economic reformers, but that may not be enough to reverse the setbacks they've suffered over the past year in the factional political battles inside China's ruling Communist party. Although the reformers grouped around Prime Minister Zhu Rongji had hoped to use the market-opening requirements of WTO membership to leverage an accelerated transition toward a free market economy, they've encountered increasing resistance from hard-liners led by National People's Congress president Li Peng...
...power within Beijing's closed political system suffered a serious setback in April last year when he failed to bring home a deal from Washington, where he'd gone to negotiate a final agreement on WTO membership. (Although the two sides had been close to agreement on trade matters, the Clinton administration was politically unable to press a deal with Beijing amid the fallout from nuclear espionage allegations.) But skepticism over rapid reform has grown over the past year, less because of Maoist nostalgia than out of concern that its immediate consequences - massive unemployment with no social safety net - will...