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...also lose one of their potential allies in their fight for unionization--the undergraduates themselves. It's all very well to sympathize with your TA about making ends meet in New Haven, but when you can't find out how you did on the final exam, well, sympathies may tend to fade away...
...difficult for this incurable liberal to understand what vision of the United States the conservative camp could possibly be using to reach its conclusions. I tend to take it as a basic fact about America that we are free to speak our minds, especially when it comes to politics. There are no taboos here; there is nothing so special that it cannot be discussed, questioned, and criticized. How can conservatives ignore such a significant part of what makes ours the great nation that...
Smokers at Harvard also tend to gravitate towards certain concentrations, with humanities concentrations having the highest percentage of smoking students (42 percent), social sciences having 41 percent, and natural and applied sciences having 28 percent. A smoker was defined here as one who had used a tobacco product at least once in the past year...
...Well it's about time" appears to be the most common response among Harvard students to the newly inaugurated Loker Commons, and we tend to agree. Months of anticipation amid scaffolding and construction barriers and years of social drought ended this month with the unveiling of this new, state-of-the-art student recreational area. Since its opening on Monday, December 4, hundreds of students have already made use of the Commons; it represent nothing less than a brand new dimension to life at Harvard...
Like most Americans, I do not tend to think of a society that has been good to me and to my parents as "evil." But when he said that "somebody has power," it was difficult to disagree. It is possible that icy equanimity and a self-pacifying form of moral abdication by the powerful will take more lives in the long run than any single drug-addicted and disordered parent. Elisa Izquierdo's mother killed only one child. The seemingly anesthetized behavior of the U.S. Congress may kill thousands. Now we are told we must "get tougher" with the poor...