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Thompson said he worries that most of the developers in the Cambridge real estate market want to build commercial projects and condominiums, not apartments subject to rent control...
While many friends declined to label the first-year Cornell graduate student a genius, they said hard work and an incredible enthusiasm for the subject created a potent programming ability. They said, however, that any computer graduate student was capable ofcreating the virus that entered the NationalSecurity Agency's computer system, haltingterminals at many of the premier researchinstitutions in the country and the Pentagon...
...agreement, subject to approval next Wednesday, adds three student representatives to the board, bringing the total number to 10. HSA workers said it will probably give students equal voting power to that of the professional administrators and alumni who make up the board's majority...
What is so alarming about the implications of the Anthropology 10 memo is that a faculty member might condone the hiring of graduate students whose knowledge of the subject in question suspect. This is, after all, Harvard, which has traditionally been able to attract the nation's brightest undergraduates, graduate students, and professors to its hallowed halls. It is beyond my ability to conceive that Harvard would have the least bit of trouble hiring stellar, much less competent, teaching fellows (the same might be said about minority and women faculty); it is a question of initiative and not of feasibility...
However, for more than 20 years now, the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have lived under Israeli occupation. They are denied the right to vote, yet must pay taxes to their occupiers. They are subject to beatings, torture and arrests without charge. Their property has been confiscated...