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...cartoonist sketching the standard route to the Harvard English Department would probably draw a map something like this; beginning within the venerable wills of Harvard Yard, the road would stretch through Yale or Oxford before making a U and returning to its place of origin. On the way, the ambitious traveller would acquire an appropriate understanding of Shakespeare, Milton and Joyce and a slightly varied collection of tweed or grey flannel suits...
...professors and administrators on the council discussed allowing complaints besides these that "allege discrimination on the basis of race, color, religious belief, sex, national or ethnic origin, handicap or age" to be included in the procedure...
...AWACS issue itself. And given that no other pressures worked upon Horner, she had a special responsibility to make a cogent case for the sale. That responsibility, to understand the complexities and likely impact of the sale, seems particularly great given the less-than-wholesome aura of its origin a corporate conclave in Riyadh apparently teeming with Saudi influence-peddlers...
...Faculty Council, in its first session of the spring term, also considered expanding the procedures to apply to complaints other than charges of discrimination. The current procedures deal only with grievances" which allege discrimination on the basis of race, color, religious belief, sex, national or ethnic origin, handicap...
...origin of the Yellow Pig is shrouded in obscurity: Kelly refuses to divulge the secret. Of the many "creation myths," though, Benji N. Fisher '85 offers the most probable explanation: "In Princeton about 30 years ago. David Kelly and Michael Spivak (author of several math textbooks) were drinking buddies, and instead of seeing pink elephants, they saw yellow pigs...