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...more important than the students who comprise these institutions. A professor of mine told me that he believed whenever anyone at Harvard feels any sort of threat from change, he or she (usually he) hides behind the safeguard of tradition. Students can't stand taking final exams after winter recess? All-male, exclusive Final Clubs are unfair and stupid? Sorry, it's tradition...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: The Paradox of Tradition | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...After a recess is called and McVeigh is escorted away, his smile vanishes as soon as he re-enters the detention cell. His face immediately sets itself into a neutral expression. If he is playacting, you have to wonder what he thinks that will accomplish. Surely, the circumstances of the case call for utmost gravity on the part of everyone involved. Perhaps McVeigh's behavior is part of his ongoing effort to show that he is just a regular guy, not a narrow-eyed fanatic. If so, he is defeating his own purpose: a regular guy would never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA CITY: THE WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...Leverett window and watch intently as the snow swoons and finally falls to Memorial Drive and settles on top of the benches that line the Charles River, I think back on how many tan faces, mine among them, spot classrooms on these first days back after spring recess...

Author: By Daniel M.suleiman, | Title: The Spring Break Id | 4/2/1997 | See Source »

...course, whether it's good or bad for the A.C.L.U. that some Justices know a Website from a legal cite probably won't be known for months. The Justices will rule sometime before the court's summer recess--usually by July 4. Meantime, in the absence of any clear constitutional law in cyberspace, at least 17 states have passed or are considering their own legislation to regulate the Net. New York enacted a law last year that resembles the CDA. In Virginia it's now illegal for state employees--including state-college professors--to access "sexually explicit" materials online. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: @THE SUPREME COURT | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...students who choose to stick around Cambridge for the week, Dudley Cafe, located in Lehman Hall, is offering a spring recess meal plan. Students can sign up at a dining hall today to get lunch and dinner over the break...

Author: By Emily B. Wong, | Title: Spring Break Brings Welcome Respite | 3/21/1997 | See Source »

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