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...handpicked a new recruit to initiate into their club for each member they had lost—just as they have been doing for more than 350 years. We can hope the new corporation members will be more ethical than those they are replacing, but hope is a slim hook on which to hang the $17 billion that is left in the Harvard endowment. The key question for the Harvard community to consider now is how we can make sure the tremendous resources with which we have been endowed are never again used by insiders to help out their political...
...captain Clay Bischoff teamed with senior crew Lema Kikuchi in the ‘A’ boat to fight off a difficult westerly wind and lay claim to a slim division lead after the first day of competition...
...other," rebel spokesman Corporal Serge Kofi told TIME last week. "We had confidence in the French, but giving logistical aid [to government forces] is the same as arming the enemy." With distrust on both sides growing and thousands of Ivorians taking to the streets, the prospects for peace look slim...
After outlining the problems, Wilson proposed a solution. He suggested conservation groups outbid companies at fault for destroying biodiversity, since he said these companies operate at very slim profit margins...
Harvard (2-0, 1-0 Ivy) held on to its slim lead late in the game in both dramatic and controversial style. After senior kicker Anders Blewett missed a 23-yard field goal wide left late in the fourth quarter, the Bears’ offense pushed its way down the field methodically...