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There are so many important things going on all around us here at Harvard, from ground-breaking research, like last year's myriad genetic breakthroughs at the Harvard Medical School, to crucial societal debates, like the fracas surrounding last year's decision by Harvard to rescind Gina Grant's admission offer. The New York Times ran an unprecedented double-digit number of articles on events at Harvard last year. We are right here in the middle of national news. If there is any time and any place that should make one feel...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: A PARTING SHOT | 1/31/1996 | See Source »

...robots (R2D2 makes an appearance in one) to coprophagy and rape with sharp objects (in one case, a "sword in the rectum"). Fantastic physical traumas (e.g., the sword) yield not a shred of physical evidence. One child said her teacher had turned her into a mouse. For a myriad of such offenses, New Jersey preschool teacher Margaret Kelly Michaels was given 47 years. (Her conviction was overturned in 1993--after she had served five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

This caring atmosphere was part of what have Penningroth, a Princeton, N.J. move, in choose Harvard over myriad schools competing for her athletic and academic presence...

Author: By Brian D. Algra, | Title: Penningroth Hurdles Back From Injury to Contribute | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

Members of PBHA have said this tall that the administration did not adequately consider student input in choosing Kidd over long-time PBHA Executive Director Greg A. Johnson '72. A rally last Thursday drew about 700 students and a myriad of community leaders in support of PBHA's stance against the administration...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer and Sarah E. Scrogin, S | Title: Ehrlich Elected PBHA President | 12/13/1995 | See Source »

...Weird Wonders Inside locked cabinets at the Smithsonian Institution nestle snapshots in stone as vivid as any photograph. There, engraved on slices of ink-black shale, are the myriad inhabitants of a vanished world, from plump Aysheaia prancing on caterpillar-like legs to crafty Ottoia, lurking in a burrow and extending its predatory proboscis. Excavated in the early 1900s from a geological formation in the Canadian Rockies known as the Burgess Shale, these relics of the earliest animals to appear on earth are now revered as priceless treasures. Yet for half a century after their discovery, the Burgess Shale fossils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Life Exploded | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

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