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Although diplomatic agreements with China prohibit the U.S. government from granting visas to Taiwanese officials, Harvard’s Fairbanks Center found a way Monday to bring President of Taiwan Chen Shui-Bian to Coolidge Hall anyway—they teleconferenced...
...into understated, foot-stamping dance, which became progressively more energetic. As the night continued, he let his long dreads loose, earning rapturous applause. In Zimbabwe, Mapfumo is famous for playing “pungwes”—shows that last until the sun comes up. Cambridge regulations prohibit this, but the audience, who unequivocally demanded an encore, would have stayed for as long as he played...
Warm weather teams have the biggest advantage of all. Harvard’s first opponent, Rice, on March 16, has been practicing in the Texan sun for most of the winter. Plus, Ivy League restrictions that prohibit play until the middle of March mean that the Owls will have some 20 games more of experience...
...doctors while the nation is preoccupied with international events is especially alarming. Oregon is the only state that has passed a law legalizing assisted suicide and Ashcroft seems to want to make the state an example so others will not follow suit. So far, the other 49 states prohibit doctors from dispensing controlled substances for the purpose of ending a patient’s life. Oregon became the exception in 1994, when 51 percent of the state’s voters approved a referendum establishing the state’s Death with Dignity...
Generally accepted accounting principles prohibit firms from using their rising stock price as a form of income. But that’s exactly what some of these shell companies were designed to do. As the report states, the transactions were just “transfers of economic risk from one Enron pocket to another, apparently to create income that would offset [losses] on Enron’s income statement...