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Walt describes a debate between faculty who prefer an early concentration decision to ensure adequate time for completing concentration requirements, and faculty who favor a later choice because they believe that, given additional time, students will make a better informed decision...

Author: By Joshua D. Gottlieb and William C. Marra, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Scenic Routes to A Concentration | 4/13/2004 | See Source »

...capital punishment, just one on matters implicating the American flag. Under these circumstances, it would be annoying to be told that it is unacceptable for an opinion to be used more than once. Worse than annoying, it would be wasteful. Call it plagiarism if you like; we prefer to think of it as recycling. Facts are like air: they can be polluted, but there is no danger that we will actually run out of the stuff. Opinions, by contrast, are like water or oil: the danger of running out is real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steal This Column! | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

Advantages aside, the new feature does have its faults. Namely, it doesn’t allow for those engaged in multiple relationships—those who prefer simultaneous loving to one on one—to give proper credit where all the proper credit is due. After dumping her former boyfriend, Dartboard tried to list all three of her new partners only to find that she could only list...

Author: By The Editors, | Title: DARTBOARD | 4/9/2004 | See Source »

...Which do you prefer: performing a student’s work or producing a work by a famous, off-campus playwright? Do you feel at all drained after performing...

Author: By Vinita M. Alexander, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Spotlight: Andrea M. Spillman '07 | 4/9/2004 | See Source »

Polls consistently show that Americans prefer their leaders to be religious, and in running to unseat the most openly devout President in recent years, Kerry has at times put a pious cast on his own rhetoric. In a speech at a Mississippi church on March 7, he said Bush does not practice the "compassionate conservatism" he preaches, and quoted James 2: 14, "What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Test of Kerry's Faith | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

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