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...Reagan’s inauguration. Harvard students, in the middle of their exams at the time, scrawled “The hostages are free!” in their blue books in celebration, The Crimson reported.“Nobody was hurt, nobody was killed. There was a great sigh of relief,” Frye says. Both Limbert and Swift accepted positions at Harvard’s Center for International Affairs in the 1981-1982 school year, where they each kept a low profile. As a fellow, Swift avoided speaking publicly about her experience as a hostage. Her time...
Amid unconfirmed reports that the 17 men and boys arrested in Toronto over the weekend aimed to bomb the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa and office towers in downtown Toronto, Canadians are still breathing a sigh of relief that the Mounties - along with other police and intelligence agents - appear to have got their men. But there are still fears about what threats may remain undiscovered. Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day, responsible for the Canadian Intelligence and Security Service and Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said there could be more arrests coming as the investigation continues...
...many of us find ourselves seeking gainful employment for the months ahead. Incidentally, most of Harvard’s dining hall workers are conducting the same search. But while we gallivant down to New York for that Goldman-Sachs internship we just happened to get or settle with a sigh into being a barista at a hometown Starbucks, many of the people who provide meals for us every day wonder how they’ll feed their own families come June. This is one of the many concerns of the Student Labor Action Movement’s (SLAM) latest campaign...
High school marijuana users everywhere breathed a heavy, smoke-tinged sigh of relief this past February 1. On that day, Congress amended the Higher Education Act (HEA): College students with pre-college drug offenses would again be eligible for federal financial aid.But students with offenses during college still forfeit their funds from the government—and a spate of drug-related incidents earlier this year at Harvard has raised questions about the inviolability of financial aid at the College.Opponents of the federal drug policy want the HEA to be amended further.The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with...
...teachers loved it, because it meant that they were able to read for quality and let the computer read for honesty.”And with the world wading through a Harvard student’s work to read for honesty, that might bring some a sigh of relief...