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...assignment was to read the "slush pile," the weighty but eclectic group of unsolicited articles received by the magazine...
This past week students returned from a spring break filled with warm weather and sunny beaches only to be greated by 24 inches of snow awaiting them in Cambridge. Yet despite having to climb mountains of ice and wade through puddles of slush, undergraduates managed to enjoy what is most likely the last blizzard of the winter (spring...
...senior faculty members might devote their time to? If they were not so interested, might not the Dean of the Faculty attempt to persuade them to do so, either through the Core or outside of it? Might not the Dean of the Faculty be able to use a Core slush fund to provide "incentives," like the existence of additional paid teaching fellow positions for graduate students? It seems that the only loser would be the Core Program Review Committee; would its loss of power be a bad thing for Harvard education...
...Yeltsin election workers, detained as they left a government building, allegedly carrying more than half a million dollars in cash. The opposition-dominated Duma, or lower house of parliament, maintains that Yeltsin vastly exceeded the campaign-spending limits and that the dollars were part of an illegal slush fund. The Duma has called on Yeltsin to suspend Chubais until the case is resolved. Yeltsin has not responded...
...loved that time, and reminding myself of it made me feel optimistic through 39 feet of gray slush four months a year. Recalling it made me stifle instinctive laughter when people who never had to wander in the winter would laud Harvard's beauty...