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Harvard’s lagging ability to attract top students and faculty in these areas is a product of what McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering Joseph J. Harrington said is a history of indifference to DEAS. Adminsitrators were perfectly content to let DEAS subsist as a small outpost in the FAS science compound along Oxford Street...
...perpetrators are targeting U.S. enemies. There'll be no complaints, for example, about Malawi's decision last week to ignore its own courts in order to expedite the extradition of five al-Qaeda suspects to the U.S. And good governance has been an exceedingly rare phenomenon in nations that subsist primarily on exporting...
...January, Boston City Councillor Felix Arroyo, who opposes war in Iraq, announced that he would remain on a hunger strike until the nation’s aggressive policies against Iraq were reversed. By now, Arroyo’s promise to subsist on an all liquid diet should have lasted...
...these monsters there to trouble our sleep? Some were abandoned by former residents out of forgetfulness or spite; the others are ours and were stuck there outside the bounds of space and time to allow us to focus on present exigencies. Excluded from our plans and schemes, they subsist of their own will and take on malignant proportions. Only a superbly efficient soul can repress the symptoms completely. The rest of us will never be free of the varmints...
...VCRs. In those photographs of the 1800s elite in their spacious dorms, well-dressed and smoking cigars, there is nothing in the background to imply entertainment other than books. Their options were fourfold: letter-writing, reading, drinking or smoking. Though I’m sure some tried to subsist on the latter two, how could they go about locating friends to join them without cell phones and e-mail? Studying was clearly an inevitability...