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Harvard was wise to refrain from joining this coalition. Its first priority for instruction must be those on campus—graduates, undergrads and Extension school students. Harvard should not divert its teaching efforts to for-credit instruction of those off campus with whom interaction will necessarily be limited...
...bore signs of lashing, Georgia officials removed them and 39 other kids from their homes in three separate raids in March. Officials with the Fulton County department of family and children services say they had offered the parents, all House of Prayer members, an alternative: they could agree to refrain from corporal punishment for two days during an investigation into the children's safety. All the parents refused. TV reporters captured harrowing images of crying children being dragged away. Allen and five of his 130 adherents were arrested on charges that they participated in or encouraged the beating...
...come from briefly closing an institution which, these few flukes aside, has always served alcohol only to those mature enough to enjoy it properly. We earnestly beg the commission to show mercy to this shamed institution, to allow it the chance to rebuild its good name and to refrain from imposing a temporary suspension of its liquor license...
...decision of UHS to refrain from offering this new and controversial service to its students is a sound one. RU-486 is not just a pill that can be distributed over the counter--rather, it involves several visits to internists for its administration. In the few cases where the pill has been ineffective, the practitioners have had to perform surgical abortion procedures; in others, surgery was needed as a result of heavy bleeding. UHS does not administer abortions on-site, and given the possibility of complications, it is wise to refer students elsewhere...
Still think rock is the devil's music? Salvation awaits online. A Christian website www.ultranet.com/~mari presents contemporary songs "re-versed" to "help the Church speak today's language." So Nirvana's nihilistic Smells Like Teen Spirit becomes the reverent Smells Like Holy Spirit, with the refrain "The Messiah/He's no liah/ Praise Him or face/Eternal Fire." Other conversions...