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...those students who are now thinking: "But race does matter! You cannot ignore it!" I would ask you the following: Do you think race should matter? If your answer is "no," I would encourage you to start living by that conviction. Your life is too important and too precious to sacrifice it to the god of race and ethnicity. --Andrew P. Schwartz '99, Harvard Objectivist Club
...with the ways of Foggy Bottom, she was also going where no woman had gone before: into an office with its own gray marble bathroom outfitted "for the boys," she says, with suit racks and a long column of small, thin sock drawers. Her time is treated as a precious commodity, and she is learning shortcuts. Did Warren Christopher have any tips on how to save time with her personal routine? "He can't help me," Albright says. "I wear makeup." She brought from her U.N. office her pictures and awards, her Harlem Globetrotters jersey and signed basketball. She took...
...Music Awards; he also sent 2,500 vinyl copies of On & On to radio stations and clubs. The producer continued his campaign by persuading D'Angelo, the critically lauded neo-soul singer he had once managed, to join Badu in a remake of the Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell duet Your Precious Love for the sound track of the movie High School High. Then, a few weeks ago, Massenburg booked Badu for a four-night stand at the Soul Cafe, a chic new Manhattan soul-food restaurant co-owned by Malik Yoba, star of Fox's hip police drama, New York Undercover...
...Harvard are only $370 million. This is about 20 percent of what Harvard stuffed into its endowment last year. Even if the profits dumped into the endowment last year paid the entire tuition of all 18,800 students, Harvard would still have raked in around $1.3 billion for its precious endowment...
...precious halogens have come under threat from the administration for the good reason that they are embodied with pyrotechnical prowess. A fire last year in Canaday Hall is the administration's local example of a halogen-induced fire, but surely we have all heard of other instances, not the least of which was the widely covered story of New York jazz musician Lionel Hampton whose apartment went aflame after his halogen tipped over. In the broader picture, the Consumer Product Safety Commission reports that halogens caused 100 fires and 10 deaths last year in this country...