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...This was just an exercise in common sense," Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 wrote in an e-mail. "It seemed that some Faculty might not make it in today or tomorrow, making it hard for students to consult with them or to obtain necessary permissions, so after a brief consultation with the Registrar and a few others we decided just to let students turn in their forms a bit late...
...Meanwhile, in New York, the Times reports that Hillary's other brother, Tony Rodham, helped obtain presidential pardons for Edgar and Vonna Jo Gregory, carnival owners from Tennessee who were convicted of bank fraud in 1982. Rodham's spokesperson says that while Rodham did ask for the pardons, he never received money from the Gregorys. Rodham has, however, worked as a consultant for Edgar Allen Gregory for about seven years...
...victims are lured from home, their travel papers are usually taken away. The girls are then threatened with being turned over to local authorities as illegal aliens if they step out of line. Later, handlers tell them that they have been sold and that the only way to obtain their "freedom" is to work off their "debt," a threat that is repeated as many times as the woman changes hands...
There are only two fundamental ways of addressing problems of overcrowding: cut people or add space. Unless Harvard wants to reduce the size of its entering class, it must either obtain additional apartment space, expand existing Houses or build a thirteenth House. The latter, though expensive, would at least avoid increasing the size of the already large Houses and further compromising the sense of community within them. Adding more beds to overflow housing like the DeWolfe complex does not address the underlying problem of crowding; it only shuffles students around. Another proposal noted in the report, to encourage 100 more...
...Israeli officials first approached the Justice Department and were told the plan conflicted with prosecutorial goals. But, the memo says, DOJ would give "serious consideration" to the plea if the White House or State Department identified a U.S. interest "in allowing Israel to obtain the active participation of Rich in a Middle East initiative." Rich's representatives saw this as an opening to find a "sponsor" in the administration who believed "a greater cause would be served by finding a solution to the Marc Rich problem," according to the memo...