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Since the very public tiff, Seton has tried to underplay the incident, dubbing it a misunderstanding and emphasizing a subsequent reconciliation...
...true that this fee constitutes the only source of support for student groups. There are grant programs from many sources within Harvard--through the Office for the Arts, through the Harvard Foundation, through the President's Public Service Fund, through the Student Activities Fund administered by Dean Illingworth and, starting next year when the separate RUS fee disappears, through the Ann Radcliffe Trust. There are also salaries and expenses for undergraduate activities that are paid directly by the College. Why shouldn't the College just take over the whole job of funding student groups...
Introspection, contemplation--of what, exactly? That may be beside the point; the common refrain here is the chance to reflect simply on this raucous, wildly overpromoted night. When Minneapolis, Minn., public relations executive David Feider thinks about this New Year's Eve, for instance, he fantasizes about absconding to a hideaway along Lake Superior to "stare at the moon, as far away from the rabble as possible"--to escape not Y2K-prompted food riots or the Four Horsemen but rather the omnipresent buzz over the event. "I can't really identify with it anymore," he says. "People are getting...
...include social concerns--the environment, labor rights, Third World poverty. And they want it now. More than 775 nongovernment organizations have registered with the WTO, bringing some 2,100 observers. "The WTO is an octopus with an arm into every little crevice of democracy," says Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch lobby. "It trumps domestic laws and international treaties and imposes one-size-fits-all rules...
...esque, about such gilded offerings as the Chicago Fairmont Hotel's two-night suite package for two at $306,426--which includes a party for 10 with Dom Perignon and beluga caviar, as well as a 2000 Lamborghini Roadster. ("We'll even throw in a tank of gas," says public relations director Susan Ellefson.) The late-1990s boom is a time of less conspicuous, if no less expensive, consumption, when Donald Trump has morphed from poster boy for ostentation to tax-the-rich political populist, when the wealthy want to have their Valrhona chocolate cake and feel karmically good about...