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Yale students who do take lessons for credit do not pay anything beyond regular tuition fees. Harvard students, however, do not have this option, forcing them to seek expensive instruction from outside of the school...
Because Harvard students must seek instruction outside of school, they are often forced to venture some distance for lessons...
...despite its apparent frivolity, the penchant we "intellectuals" have for palmistry is symptomatic of a looming gap within. It is intellectualism and science which have drilled the hole we seek to fill with fortune-telling. The fact that MIT, renowned capital of science and reason, offers a course in palmistry, proves it. MIT needs some brand of irrationality to counter and assuage its otherwise hyper-ultra-rational pursuits. (Harvard, on the other hand, fulfills its quotient with the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies). True, literature and folk and myth concentrators swarm around Paul; but he is even more accosted...
...were treated to a remarkable spectacle: Patrick Buchanan preaching redemption. Buchanan left political veterans gasping when he borrowed the catechism of Jesse Jackson's campaign, the Old Testament verse that went with him everywhere: "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and heal their land...
...addictive. Philip Morris lawyers point out that their former CEO, William Campbell, did not say tobacco is not addictive: he only said he doesn't believe it is addictive, a "personal viewpoint he has every right to hold," says York. Some tobacco experts speculate that the tobacco industry may seek a deal in which cigarette companies agree to some level of FDA regulation in return for corporate and personal immunity from any charges of wrongdoing...