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...questions about uncomfortable topics—final clubs, sexual assault and the Core—honestly. That must continue; the admissions office should not take this as an opportunity to present an unrealistic, whitewashed view of Harvard’s problems. The new tour guides should answer even the prickliest of questions openly and honestly, in order to give prospective students an accurate impression of life at Harvard...
...involved in six accidents ?- two of them accounting for 171 deaths ?- more than any other domestic carrier. Federal investigators are now looking for a pattern, said NTSB spokesman Paul Turk, "to see if there is something we need to do." American?s pilots ?- who probably have the industry?s prickliest relationship with their management ?- have been only too happy to provide some usual suspects...
...following in the iconoclastic footsteps of his father, played host to one of the world's prickliest politicians this week: Russian hypernationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. No meeting between the two was reported, but the heavy-drinking bad boy Vlad and Kim, reportedly a dedicated party animal who loves Cognac, seem to see eye to eye: Zhirinovsky carefully had nothing but good things to say about Kim in the North Korean press...
...prickliest issues in Congress lately has been the prospective free- trade agreement with Mexico. While economists are virtually unanimous that free trade benefits both trading nations, labor unions fear they'll lose jobs to Mexicans who work for lower wages, and have opposed the pact. So have environmentalists, who fear that industry will boom south of the border, where antipollution laws are less strictly enforced...
...accompanied by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Andrei Alexandrov-Agentov, an adviser on East-West relations, met with them and U.S. Ambassador Arthur Hartman for 30 min. in the brightly lit Green Room of the Kremlin. They discussed nuclear-arms control, Afghanistan and human rights, three of the prickliest issues between the two countries...