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During that search, police recovered numerous gems, including a cache of gold, silver, rubies, opals and more than 100 other precious and non-precious gems and minerals which Hogue had stolen from the museum over a nine-month period. Police also found a microscope and other Harvard property...
...only one to shrug off evaluations; students across campus are filling in bubbles in interesting patterns, or ignoring the forms altogether. By not taking the evaluations seriously, students waste a precious opportunity to turn the tables and "grade" professors and teaching fellows on the jobs they have done...
...quite a plausible situation: Someone who expects to concentrate in Classics takes Science A to fill a requirement, then falls in love with the material. This person has a three-sided problem. A Physics Core exemption has been wasted, a Science A will be credited as a precious elective and the aspiring physicist must start from scratch in the department. To make things worse, Physics 5 probably repeats some of the material from the Science A that lured the student away from Classics...
Once you've made your purchase and brought your precious little box of cards home, you've still got to make the most important decision of all: who's on your list...
...apparent the issue is not so simple. Already Fidel Castro's Cuba is no more. Whether he is leading the way or merely acquiescing to it, the socialist Utopia he built is sliding inexorably toward capitalism. But Cubans still believe that Castro's revolution has given them something too precious to lose. People understand their economy is in ruins, but they see no one who could lead them out of their present misery but Fidel. The struggle under way is between Castro and the forces of history: Can he control Cuba's mutation to his liking, or will freeing...