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...correct answer is that this isn't a hypothetical scenario. Last spring, Harvard administrators did find out that the tap water had been contaminated with high levels of carcinogenic trihalomethanes for 16 months. But rather than inform the community immediately, officials waited for four weeks to make any official announcement. (They claimed that the information was too "alarming" to tell students immediately...
...wake of last month's decision by Yale's Skull and Bones society to tap women as members, attention has increasingly focused on the future of Harvard's all-male clubs. In an interview Friday, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 said that if a club did decide to admit women as members, it would have to go through normal channels if it wished to be recognized again as an official student group...
...lost her husband to cancer, a Scientologist turned up at her Los Angeles home peddling a $1,300 auditing package to cure her grief. Some $15,000 later, the Scientologists discovered that her house was debt free. They arranged a $45,000 mortgage, which they pressured her to tap for more auditing until Baker's children helped their mother snap out of her daze. Last June, Baker demanded a $27,000 refund for unused services, prompting two cult members to show up at her door unannounced with an E-meter to interrogate her. Baker never got the money and, financially...
...consideration of admitting women to the Fly Club comes in the wake of a recent decision by Yale's Skull and Bones society to "tap" women for entry into that club for the first time ever...
Sokolof, born in Omaha in 1922, has always enjoyed center stage. Starting tap-dance lessons at age six, he soon won first prize at a children's talent show. He still recalls the drill. "Left, right, shuffle, shuffle, tap, tap," he says, his body swaying with the remembered rhythm. At nine, he made the first of his many career changes, taking voice lessons and singing at weddings and bar mitzvahs. After high school, he took to the road for four years as a vocalist with a succession of bands, performing in ballrooms and nightclubs across the country...