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...spitting in public from $77 to nearly $200. Team Clean also formulated a point system designed to ?encourage? good hygiene among residents of the city?s 700,000 public-housing flats. Tenants who accrue 16 points in two years could face eviction. The point system is itself littered with odd value judgments; boiling wax in public is worth five points, for instance, while spitting gets you seven. To enforce it, the government will ask tenants to inform on dirty neighbors. Critics question the attempt to modify behavior through legislation, and many residents plan to ignore the new system altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong Cleans Up | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...departments or his support of equal treatment for women at the College, not only on our diplomas but in our day-to-day lives—yet such praise was rare compared to the criticism. Thus, when Lewis was forced out of office this March, it might have seemed odd that The Crimson’s editorial headline read “Lewis Deserved Better.” Though long since retired from the editorial board, I would guess that two related reasons lay behind that choice of headline, one journalistic and one Harvard-focused...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: A Worthy Adversary | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

After college, Maddox took up all sorts of odd jobs until she landed a position as a writer for the Quincy Patriot, the daily paper for Quincy, Mass...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Late Starter’ Writes On Telecommunications, Famous Women | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...Harvard lightweight crew suffered adversity this year in its dual loss to Navy and a fourth-place finish at Eastern Sprints. Nevertheless, this season ended like every other odd year since 1991—with the Crimson...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Lightweights Avenge Easterns with National Title | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...kinda funny, but when it comes down to it, we just wanted to win,” captain Nick Blannin said. “It is known around the league that it’s been an odd trend...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Lightweights Avenge Easterns with National Title | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

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