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Terming the recent rash of crime "a very serious matter," Riley said HUPD has upped the visibility of patrols in the Quad and River areas...
...with a cool and confident brilliance into the quagmire of Vietnam" is to ignore his prophetic June 30, 1965, memorandum concerning the major troop-deployment decisions that were to transform the conflict into an American war--a memo that characterized the plan for massive U.S. ground-force involvement as "rash to the point of folly." Your article also made a grotesque fiction of Bundy's life after he left the government. He was a superb president of the Ford Foundation. Serious historians of the nuclear age consider his book on the atom a great work...
These issues will not go away. Last spring, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 decided, prudently in my opinion, that Hanukkah candle lightings in dorm rooms would no longer be allowed. A rash of fires had damaged University property and had put other students at risk. The proposed change, however, provides that a public space, like a Junior Common Room or a dining hall, be set aside for Jewish students to perform the candle lighting ritual...
...possible solution is to engineer genetically a harmless hybrid virus that contains some, but not all, of HIV's hereditary information. Scientists are now focusing their efforts on the canary pox virus, which causes a rash in birds but not in people. By introducing a few HIV genes into the canary pox virus, the researchers hope to create a new microbe that looks sufficiently like HIV that it will prime the body's defenses against the more serious threat. In early trials of vaccine preparations that include the canary pox agent, half the human subjects appear to be producing...
While high-profile areas like government buildings and airports have restricted access since the recent rash of terrorist activity, the gates of Harvard Yard remain open, allowing the public to stream...