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Finnegan Hamill, manager of The Harvard Shop, sent an e-mail to House administrators, accusing Ringware of failing to obtain the required permission slip from the dean of the College’s office before setting up shop in Lowell...

Author: By Kimberly A. Kicenuik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Company Says Tabling Tactics Don't Ring True | 3/5/2003 | See Source »

...absent from work than their white-collar counterparts, thanks to injurious working conditions and lack of economic incentives. Unfortunately, some strategies to verify illness have made the absenteeism issue more opaque. In Belgium, citizens who want to take time off sick present employers with an easy-to-obtain medical certificate which specifies how long they will be off work. As a result, the language of absenteeism is intrinsically bureaucratic: when one American working in Brussels asked after the health of a stricken secretary, he was told, "She has a certificate for three days." And not everybody considers a doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Absent Minded | 3/2/2003 | See Source »

...semester—is an adequate deterrent half-way through the semester for most students. Their suggestion of grade inflation as an unfortunate outcome of an add-drop system is a gratuitous jab at undergraduates, most of who utilize add-drop not to procure the best grades, but to obtain a more beneficial academic experience...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Don’t Drop the Drop Deadline | 2/25/2003 | See Source »

...Reparations Coordinating Committee filed the complaint after a local group, the Tulsa Reparations Committee, contacted them for help. This group had failed to obtain reparations from the Oklahoma state and Tulsa city governments over the past two years...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HLS Professor, Reparations Group File Suit | 2/25/2003 | See Source »

Such changes are partly an effort to obtain the best possible match-ups against Trinity. The Bantams infuriated Harvard last year by moving their regular No. 9 to the fifth slot for the Howe Cup, seeming violating the ladder stacking prohibition...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Squash Begin Howe Cup Chase | 2/14/2003 | See Source »

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