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Yesterday's closed breakfast meeting marked the first gathering for the committee since last week's rare open meeting, when the ACSR solicited Harvard community opinion on the subject before a crowd of about...
Your story "Ole Miss: Echoes of a Civil War's Last Battle" [Oct. 4] reflected the feelings of many Southerners. We are proud of our heritage. While prejudice may still pervade our society, hard-core hatred is rare. Today, young blacks and whites play together oblivious of skin differences. With the next generation, perhaps even more of our problems will be solved...
...symptom is alarming to the parents and bewildering to the affected children: breast development in girls six months to seven years old, and sometimes in young boys. Ordinarily, premature thelarche, as doctors call the condition, is a rare disorder, occurring in less than one out of 1,000 children. But in recent years doctors in Puerto Rico have reported more than 700 cases, mostly in children under two. Some slightly older patients display a fuller range of adult sexual traits, including menstruation at age seven. "When you see four cases a day of an uncommon condition, then you know something...
Such people are rare and valuable, and with the proper care and feeding they may last a lifetime. An enemy well nurtured is a joy forever. When he is not maligning you in public, he is maligning you in private; when he is not maligning you in private, he is contemplating doing so. Wherever he is, some assault against your person is being committed. Wherever he has been, your bones lie heaped. He is enormous. In your dreams his shoulders press against your skull. He himself never sleeps. There is too much mischief to be done, too many calumnies begging...
Nearly 150 people last week attended a rare open meeting of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) held to begin discussion on designing guidelines to aid the Corporation in voting on shareholders resolutions concerning nuclear...