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...shun such fawning. We tell our family and friends that we go to school in Boston and avoid dropping the H-bomb that might make lesser folk uncomfortable. In polite conversation, we grow adept at unconsciously substituting "major" for "concentration," "resident advisor" for "proctor" and "TA" for "TF." We pretend we go to a school like all other schools, only with a slightly higher average GPA and a slightly worse football team...
...want to show respect for people who work for a living, then let the unions and the administration work it out," said council Treasurer John J. Appelbaum '97. "Don't pretend that you have any power and that you can meddle in the issue with any kind of informed opinion...
...reports that 55 percent of Harvard undergraduates are male. The male-to-female ratio in the aggressive, hunter-filled government department is 61 percent to 39 percent, whereas the male-female ratio in the English Department is exactly the reverse--39 percent male, 61 percent female. I don't pretend to know what this means, if anything, about gender differences. I leave that to the psychology majors. Just a little food for thought...
...course, telomerase therapy has obvious problems. Dosing tissues with precisely the enzyme that helps turn healthy cells cancerous strikes many skeptics as less than a life-extending brainstorm, and even advocates of telomerase therapy don't pretend that such treatments could yet be considered safe. Moreover, how easy it would be to manipulate the telomerase gene in the first place is an open question, since merely locating it among the 100,000 or so we carry in each cell can be a mind-numbing...
...Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was probably the most important day in the history of East Timor [WORLD, Oct. 21]. After more than 20 years of Indonesian occupation, the country and the East Timorese deserved this award. Now the world can no longer pretend that conflict in East Timor does not exist. MARGARIDA SERRA Odivelas, Portugal...