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According to the new rules, users must obtain the permission of Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 before using "Harvard" in an Internet domain, an e-mail address or a website title. Those who wish to use common abbreviations for Harvard's faculties--for example, "HLS" for Harvard Law School--must consult the school's dean...
...guideline indicates that student organizations must work through the Dean of Students' office to obtain that permission...
...female student declined to seek an emergency restraining order, though under law, she was entitled to obtain one. Police said they do not believe the student poses a threat to the community...
Near the beginning of Walden, Thoreau writes that "it would be some advantage to live in a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessaries of life and what methods have been taken to obtain them." The irony, of course, is that now we would say even the most "civilized" mid-nineteenth-century American lived a life far more primitive than any imaginable today. No Coca-Cola (nor plastic bottle in which to hold it); no Gore-Tex jacket (nor zipper with which close it); no Chevy...
...life did emerge on the one and only planet we really know, how can we deny that a sizable proportion of these other planets must also contain life? Yet a logical fallacy dooms this common argument because either alternative can be reconciled with the positive result that I must obtain for the only place I can sample--our Earth. For if all appropriate planets generate some form of life, then I should not be surprised that I have found living things on my own world. But if life really exists on my planet alone, then I must still record...