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...Harvard graduates.” The old jokes are, if not the best, than certainly the most comforting. However, even the most cursory glance at the Harvard student body would tip off the casual observer that most undergraduates are unable to grasp that simple premise. In spite of the furor over falling numbers at last week’s Phillips Brooks House Association First-Year Day of Service—where 25 students participated, compared to more than 300 eager volunteers the previous year—the problem at Harvard remains the student body’s over-commitment...
...into the Zambian agricultural sector had previously delayed the distribution of GM food aid to drought-stricken Zambia. The Zambian government’s first priority must be to preserve its citizens’ lives by distributing food to combat the African nation’s growing famine. In spite of concerns that GM food aid may harm the Zambian agricultural economy in the future, it is possible to prevent the GM crops from endangering agricultural exports while allowing the food aid to save thousands of Zambians from starvation...
...also thought about using bear lard,” Teddy said, “but I’m a vegetarian.” (Sadly, in spite of tofurkey’s triumphant emergence as the cultural bridge between vegetarians and the rest of mankind, the creative minds at the forefront of vegetarian substitutes have yet to come up with a tofu-based option to satisfy a vegetarian’s occasional need for bear lard...
...over the stage. Richards can play guitar with the best of them, despite looking closer to rigor mortis than a rock star for some time now. The local gossip surrounding the band centered around their subdued, healthy pre-show habits instead of raging booze fests. In spite of this, or perhaps because of it, the Stones, who formed when Bill Russell was helping to win the Celtics championship banners that now hang on the FleetCenter ceiling, were at the top of their game at the start of their new tour...
...court would reject Gomes’ and Pomey’s guilty pleas, give them pre-trial probation and continue the case for two years before dismissing it. In short, the Brandano procedure would mean no jail time and no recorded conviction for either Gomes or Pomey, in spite of their admitted guilt...