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Those changes "will have a rougher time" getting through the Faculty Council, Gabay said. The Faculty Council created the current structure of the Undergraduate Council...
Begun with a contribution from the great philanthropist and financier Jacob Schiff in 1889, Harvard's Semitic Museum enjoyed the support of Schiff and others, including President Eliot. But with Eliot's retirement in 1909 and his death 17 years later, the museum was in for rougher times. As Harvard Magazine delicately put it, President Lowell was "unaccountably hostile" to it--so hostile, in fact, that in 1926 he prohibited the curator from raising any funds for the museum at all. (The Harvard president who initiated the numerus clausus for Jewish students, Lowell was also unaccountably hostile to the appointment...
...good, there's nothing too new or exciting here. Half the tracks on Unplugged are from the Maniacs' last album, Our Time in Eden, which was primarily acoustic anyway, so for the most part, we don't get any unusual approaches to their songs. While there are some rougher edges on Eden, if you aren't listening carefully, you probably won't be able to tell if you were hearing the unplugged version or the album version...
...film addresses that insoluble question: how to persuade the rest of the world that the adorable wee lad is actually evil incarnate? Mark (Elijah Wood) goes to stay with his aunt and uncle on the death of his mother. A few days of rougher-and-tumblier-than-expected play with his cousin Henry (Macaulay Culkin) convince him that he is skating on thin ice, at times literally. But to grownups, Henry appears so harmless, and Mark himself has been acting so unstable since his mother's death, that no one will listen to him. Will Mark wrench the scales from...
...burgundy Cadillac races along the Mississippi highway, droplets of rain stipple the windshield and storm clouds signal rougher weather ahead. Dr. Tom Tucker, a circuit-riding abortion doctor, is on his car phone with a clinic. "How's it look?" he asks. There's a problem: it seems a large, angry man is raising hell in the parking lot while 40 antiabortion protesters picket the clinic. "This," says Tucker, his right hand slowly sliding down to touch the 9-mm Glock pistol wedged beside his seat, "is where I start to feel the tingle...