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Jason L. Lurie ’05 raised a stir this year when he challenged whether the Undergraduate Council should give funds to two Christian groups which require that their leaders subscribe to certain principles of faith...
...lunch in the dining hall Katzen choses the tofu walnut stir-fry, complimenting head HUDS chef Martin Breslin on the tenderness of the tofu which was well infused. “I actually had seconds,” Katzen says. “Almost every kid had it on their plates...
...Sharon has caused something of a stir in his own camp by talking for the first time of a need to end Israel's "occupation" over the Palestinians. Israeli officials had previously avoided the O-word, and that, taken with Sharon's formal endorsement of a Palestinian state west of the river Jordan - a position at odds with the political program of his own Likud Party - has contributed to speculation of a dramatic turnabout on the part of the Israeli leader. But it might not be that dramatic. In explaining his "occupation" remark, Sharon referred specifically to Israeli control over...
...started two weeks ago, when House majority whip Tom DeLay came home to Texas to stir up trouble. DeLay saw a chance to boost the Republican majority in Congress by redrawing the congressional districts to give the Texas Republicans a 22-to-10 advantage. The Republicans drew some funny lines, like the ones dividing Austin into four districts, one of them connecting the capital to the border of Mexico 300 miles away. Though redistricting is usually done only after a Census, DeLay had a pretty good rationale for wanting one, since Republi-cans beat the daylights out of the Dems...
Perhaps it is not a coincidence, then, that the biggest critic of grade inflation at Harvard is an alumnus-turned-professor. Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 is a right-wing maverick who loves causing a stir. Mansfield’s philosophy revolves around an abstract concept of fairness, and he decided last fall that Gov 97a—a requirement for all government concentrators—would be graded such that no more than one fifth of students received...