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Students are chosen as National Merit Scholars based on their scores on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT) and credentials and essays submitted after they become semi-finalists...
...mark the first time he has relaxed his unbending opposition to releasing the rebel prisoners in exchange for the 73 hostages, including Fujimori's brother and the Peruvian foreign minister, who have been held for a month by the Marxist Tupac Amaru inside the Japanese ambassador's residence. The semi-conciliatory announcement follows on the heels of a brisk government rejection Thursday of Guatemala as a negotiator for the rebels at the talks, tentatively scheduled to begin early next week in a Lima church. Already, though, Fujimori's overture-of-sorts has shown signs of bearing fruit: after...
Tomorrow we will once again enter the throes of Harvard's most dreaded semi-annual endeavor, exam period--the season for primal screams, skyrocketing sleep deficits and frustrated yearnings for a midnight slice of Tommy's. In these weeks, sometimes even the brightest scholars make desperate appeals to their guardian angels...
...certainly undanceable, unjumpable, and unslamable, the songs tend to root audience members, who are used to being able to recline in their sweet darkness (or their lover's sweet arms!), to a double-footed position on the floor, nearly impassive, as if unwittingly having looked upon a semi-hand-some, but helplessly stray, masculine Medusa. Sadness' vicar...
...committee fund presently holds about $14,000 with which the council can plan the rest of the year (until receipts from the First-Year Formal are collected in early March.) This means that representatives' attempts to serve their constituents and plan events such as Sophomore or Junior class semi-formals, December holiday shuttle buses, a comedy concert/contest, a ski trip and Springfest (an outdoor festival with live music which demands months of budgetary preparations,) will be difficult to organize due to the already constrained budget...