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...subject is a complex one, and is also especially controversial because although the Cambridge City council last week extended its moratorium on DNA research one more month, Harvard and MIT are going ahead with facilities designed to house this type of research. A report by a select committee set up by the Cambridge City Council delivered at least week's council meeting recommended that the research be allowed to continue under certain safeguards...
...different" (by definition, atypical) experience, whether by virtue of being assigned to the Quad as a freshman, to an isolated room in distant annexes as a sophomore, or to a four-year House as a sophomore and thereafter. Of course, there are students who willingly and with good reason select these experiences. However, the inescapable fact is that, year after year, there are fewer such students than there are places to be assigned, and that therefore each year many students are assigned against their will. We argue for greater uniformity (or equality) not for its own sake, but because, increasingly...
...problem. Wilson Frost, the black president pro tem of the City Council who had presided in Daley's absence, told reporters, "I am acting mayor." But the city's corporation counsel, William Quinlin, said there was no acting mayor until the City Council met the following week to select...
...million was mentioned. Then Sprague began talking about $5 million, and some Congressmen began to get fidgety; eventually most concluded that such a sum was not really unreasonable for so intricate an investigation. Finally, last month, Sprague proposed $6.5 million-for just the first year-and the House Select Committee gulped. Nonetheless the committee unanimously approved the outlay, and the full House is expected to do so this month...
...takes even stranger forms. Boston Political Journalist Richard Gaines will be one of the few on the telephone during the game. (Long-distance calls dropped 50% in Pittsburgh last year while the Steelers beat the Dallas Cowboys.) Gaines watches the contest alone, but exchanges opinions via phone with a select coterie of fellow Super Bowl junkies. Says Gaines: "I always know exactly what plays will make the phone ring and who will be on the line." His Super Bowl record: all three hours on long distance...