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After months of defiant protestations of innocence about his role in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, has pleaded guilty to making false statements, conspiracy to commit fraud and violating post-employment restrictions for former congressional aides. But the probe into the lobbying scandal is far from wrapped...
There’s a certain amount of mystery in the air around the Literature department–or maybe that’s just the cigarette smoke. Lit’s got a rep for being one of Harvard’s more esoteric concentrations, filled with artsy Advocate-ians and worldly European ex-pats who spend all day at the wrought-iron tables outside Boylston Hall, arguing about Kafka in a dozen foreign languages and smoking whatever’s at hand. But don’t stress—the passport and drug habits are all optional...
...still have to take Ec10. Exempt from QR? Actually, Stats is a concentration requirement. But those who are truly meant for Social Studies will essentially be taking all the classes they want, none they don’t want, and fulfill all the requirements without knowing it.Despite its rep, Social Studies 10’s workload isn’t that bad. You can still b.s. your way through tutorial without doing all the reading. But a word of warning: you’ll come across people in the concentration who are very intense. They actually do all the reading...
...music is more popular than ever. Chamillionaire is ridin’ the airwaves with his Houston swagger; Kanye West and Pharrell Williams, two producers-turned-rappers, have made hip hop accessible to a wider audience through their collaborations with rock and pop artists; and Jay-Z continues to rep Brooklyn on the mike, even though he supposedly retired three years...
...importantly, the American Veterinary Medical Association has come out against the ban, fearing rescue shelters would be swamped with hundreds of thousands of unwanted horses while others would be sold to unregulated slaughterhouses overseas and brutalized even more. The U.S. ban "does not solve problems, it creates problems," complains Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, which is almost unanimously opposed to the measure...