Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hyman is forward-looking, and has set the College's weakling student government on a path of meaningful convalescence. There has been a notable lack of scandal and bombast--in its stead, Hyman's administration has been characterized by a low-key, steady build-up of student confidence in and respect for what had been Harvard's most buffoonish comedy of ego and intrigue. Old memories--of offices being broken into, funds illegally transferred and blackmail documents melodramatically exposed at panel discussions--are starting to fade into the dim background buzz of history...
...council has obviously embarked on a new and correct path to legitimacy in the eyes of students. It should capitalize on its momentum and throw its active support behind the recent movement to have departmental bypasses for Core courses. This new project exhibits all the qualities that the U.C. wants to be associated with: it is an issue which directly affects students; there is a large consensus among students for the bypasses; and the issues has real potential for council-sponsored action instead of grand pontification. It is an issue, which if seized upon, will be a further building-block...
Similar reasoning applies to evolution. According to the orthodox view, Darwinian selection is utterly blind. Any impression that the transition from microbes to man represents progress is pure chauvinism on our part. The path of evolution is merely a random walk through the realm of possibilities...
Although Young's career path has been clearly removed from archaeology, his passion for that subject is ever-present...
...elections," Yeltsin said last week, "it will be not for the sake of power but for the sake of Russia. I do not need power, but it is necessary to prevent a deviation from the [reform] path the country has taken." Since Russia's reformist future is clearly at risk from communists and nationalists, that statement provides a good indication that Yeltsin will be a candidate. The strongest challenge to the reformers comes from a restructured Communist Party that rose from oblivion to win the most votes in the Dec. 17 elections for the Duma, the national parliament. Although...