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Plagiarism at Harvard, at least for the student body, is a gravely punishable offense. Students caught plagiarizing are routinely suspended for semesters or even entire academic years; and in extreme cases expulsion is also an option. For professors who plagiarize, however, not even a modicum of punishment seems to be in play...
...Megumi R. Gordon ’05 and Aidan S. Madigan-Curtis ’07, it was the last option. They ran alongside over 20,000 others and numerous students from Harvard to compete in the 109th annual Boston Marathon...
Last year Ford offered air bags as an option to volume buyers like companies and the Federal Government. It sold 7,400 air-bag-equipped Topaz cars during the 1985 model year, out of total sales of 377,555. Although air bags do little good when a driver gets sideswiped, they have already helped prevent serious injuries, and possibly deaths, in head-on collisions. On a wet Connecticut road, the car of one Traveler's Insurance employee skidded into a truck carrying propane gas, but she walked away with minor bruises...
Mercedes-Benz will have air bags as standard equipment on all 1986 U.S. models. During the past two years, Mercedes has offered air bags as an option. Of the 155,000 cars sold in that period, 18,000 had air bags...
...White House and the Kremlin could even agree to hold a high-level get-acquainted meeting; Secretary of State Alexander Haig received Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in New York in September 1981. Despite earlier reservations, Reagan took a first step toward arms control in November, unveiling his zero-option proposal to cancel the planned U.S. deployment of Pershing and cruise missiles in Europe if the Soviet Union would dismantle its existing SS-20 missiles aimed at European targets. The offer was rejected, but talks on limiting such intermediate nuclear forces (INF) began the same month in Geneva. That December...