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...while a myriad of smaller events collectively improve campus life, there are a few individual projects that directly benefit a significant portion of the student body—and consequently receive large grants from the council. These projects include events like large performances, displays in the Science Center and musicals. The council contributed over $4,800 last semester to H-Club to buy “Crimson Crazies” t-shirts for hundreds of undergraduates, food for home-game tailgates and other activities that boost school spirit. The Harvard College Democrats’ "Conversations with Presidential Candidates" series this...
...Gibbons, associate dean for public affairs at the the Medican School, echoed Aisner’s advice. “We are pleased that the school is consistently ranked number one; however, students shouldn’t be using surveys like this for anything other than the minor portion of the decision making,” he said...
...Harvard men’s golf team started the spring portion of its season with a respectable eighth place showing at this weekend’s Yale Invitational. The tournament—which was comprised of teams from 22 schools—was the Crimson’s first action since October...
...shadows. In February, for example, in the most audacious attack of the entire insurgency, they overran the city's police station in a simultaneous daylight attack on five different targets - showing an ability to operate openly in Fallujah to an extent that would require the consent of a significant portion of the local population. The response of locals interviewed by the media after Wednesday's attacks was even more telling - while many expressed revulsion over the "un-Islamic" dismembering of the corpses, they also saw the killing of the Americans in the first place as justified, a retaliation for last...
...headlines. In the confused days after 9/11, when Capitol Hill offices were closed after several were contaminated by letters containing anthrax, a small group of House and Senate leaders got together with Bush Administration staff members in a corner of the Capitol to write the homeland-security funding portion of the USA Patriot Act--a massive and sweeping bill that was propelled into law just six weeks after Sept. 11. Under the direction of Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, then chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, they decided to adopt a formula that had been used in years past...