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...when it is so irrelevant to most students? A referendum on abolishing the council would be timely, and would certainly bring more than 16 percent of upperclass students to the polls. As it stands, the council is no longer necessary, and its claims to legitimacy are tenuous. Perhaps it is fitting that Harvard students, the vanguard of the species, would get by just fine in the state of nature without government. At any rate, students have outgrown the council, and would do well to abolish...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: Students Vote No on Council | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

There were 44 seconds left, and Harvard had the ball and a tenuous one-point lead over Stanford. Everyone in the house thought the rock was going to Allison Feaster--and why not? All she did was score 35 points and pull down 13 rebounds that night...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, | Title: Notorious G.I.Z. | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

...subject is most closely affiliated with economics, but according to members of Harvard's Department of Economics, the connection is more tenuous than it might initially appear...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Course 'Unaccounted' for at Harvard College | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

Again, the link between yoga and ISPs is tenuous at best. People of South Asian origin hardly ever make it into the main show--the movie or the sitcom. And when they're in commercials, they're inevitably the targets of some sort of mean-spirited joke...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Monochrome Must-See TV | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

...peacekeepers' grip on the island remains tenuous ? they control only Dili's port, its airport and the U.N. compound, and the airport at the second city of Baucau, and haven't yet landed significant armor ? and that increases the temptation of militiamen and any renegade Indonesian forces to strike now. While international pressure may have given Indonesia more to lose than to gain by holding on to East Timor, the same isn't true for the militiamen. The unearthing Wednesday of a grisly massacre site where up to 30 victims had been beheaded underscores the fact that some militia leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over in East Timor | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

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