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...serves over 10,000 students and has about 18 and one-half barbells. Shad serves less than 2,000 and carries over 40. The Crimson would do well to focus on greater inclusion--pressuring the administration for improvement and expansion of the MAC--not on the exclusion your headlines purport. --Kishan Putta, MPP1
...were not asked about any specific incidents. We now see in the story vague references to complaints from three customers about "price-manipulation schemes," but since we were not given details, it was virtually impossible to respond. Suffice it to say, we have not received complaints or inquiries that purport to suggest price manipulation at JB Oxford. Your reporter's allegation is false. Our company executes or clears approximately 3 million trades per year, as you noted, and our sales and trading practices are in line with industry standards...
...undergraduate organizations that appear on pages 429-30 of the Handbook for Students, such as that "[n]o organization shall be allowed to appear on a commercially sponsored radio or television program" and that "[n]o organization shall in any publication, radio or television broadcast, public performance or otherwise purport to represent the views or opinions of either Harvard University, Radcliffe College, or their student bodies...
...aloof Jackie--perhaps no one dared do so until Jackie was safely in her grave. But though both Christopher Andersen's Jack and Jackie: Portrait of an American Marriage (Morrow; $24) and Edward Klein's All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy (Pocket Books; $23) purport to be about the marriage, what they are mainly about is sex, sex, sex--with the emphasis on extramarital...
...last few weeks in the ways in which they have made haphazard staffing changes which will have grave consequences for students who are committed to public service. The administrators' decisions to promote restructuring for its own sake, especially without any regard for the profound effects on the students they purport to serve, should not be allowed to continue...