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Dartboard is concerned about the wave of inappropriate informality that seems to have crashed over Harvard University. Although it would be patently ridiculous for a university to attempt to strictly enforce a minimum dress requirement, there are certain occasions when Harvard organizations ought to suggest a dress code...
...light of Sept. 11, that is really a shame. We are in mourning; we are at war. Perhaps we ought to put consumption aside this holiday season, and do something truly novel: spend more time with the people we love instead of spending more money on them—even if it’s not patriotic...
...partners who got the plum jobs. And that's not the half of it: The Tajik Northern Alliance representatives at the talks also had to sidestep their leader, President Burhanuddin Rabbani, in order to cut a deal - one Tajik aide at Koenigswinter told reporters that Rabbani was old and ought to retire, but there is no sign that the man currently in charge in Kabul agrees. Most of the Pashtun warlords currently staking out their fiefdoms in the Taliban's old stomping ground weren't even represented in Germany, and there are a number of other warlords elsewhere...
...myriad of assumptions regarding Mr. Lane, which we challenge him to substantiate. First, Weinberger makes the claim that “he was basically a professional from the very beginning” and further alleges that Lane’s hockey experience prior to admission at Harvard somehow ought to have rendered him ineligible. While Mr. Weinberger may not be familiar with the world of athletics, it is more the rule than the exception to play on numerous club teams and select teams—even taking years between high school and college to do so. To suggest that...
...bureau will drop some tasks that can be handled by other federal agencies or state and local police, but he is elevating cyber-crime with a new, dedicated division. "In next five to ten years, cyber-crime is going to be one of those areas in which we ought to be the leader," he says. Reuben Garcia, the bureau's highest-ranking Hispanic agent, will become the executive assistant director supervising that division and the old criminal investigations division...