Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When both Alex and Jennifer got into Harvard, the family decided to switch partners for convenience sake. Since then, Alex and Jennifer have been a team, and have been members of the ballroom dancing organizations at Harvard...
...Haberstroh is under no illusions that even a harsh penalty will change the Nixons' beliefs. A police detective who interviewed the Nixons reported that the family saw the trial as "an instrument of the devil testing their faith." But Haberstroh is determined to follow through, if only for the sake of the surviving Nixon children. "Diabetes is often an inherited illness," says he. "If one child had it, others may well have...
...heir. And nothing would make Gore more unassailable as a candidate than a successful Clinton presidency. Says Rubin: "If you build a strong record of accomplishment and balance the budget, then anyone who might run against Gore is going to face very formidable obstacles." To be martyred for the sake of the history books hardly matters at all, by that logic. Three years is time enough for a political resurrection...
...rate, is the premise of Norman Mailer's The Gospel According to the Son (Random House; 242 pages; $22), a novel that purports to be a first-person memoir written by Jesus. Questions will immediately occur, even to readers most willing to suspend their disbelief for the sake of the narrative to come. When did Jesus write this story, and for that matter, where? Why did he wait nearly 2,000 years to present his own Gospel? Why did he choose Random House to publish...
...would teach classes of 20 to 30 students, eliminating the need for sections. But since we all know that will never happen at this university that prides itself on research, consider the second option: Make section attendance mandatory but participation optional--thus avoiding students' talking nonsense for talking's sake. Refuse to re-hire teaching fellows with less than a 3.5 CUE Guide rating until they undergo treatment at the Bok Center. And mandate that all sections--Core too--contain 15 or fewer students. It is the only way to begin to legitimate Harvard's overrated educational system...