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During this weekend's Arts First festivities, the University is showcasing the efforts of Harvard's 45 official arts organizations--which range from the improv groups On Thin Ice to the University Choir...
After the weekend series, Harvard's pitching is thin. Coach Leigh Hogan '76 has not named his starters, but they will come out of a group that includes junior Jamie Irving (2-3, 5.23 ERA), junior Tim Vanech (1-2,3.77 ERA), junior Ben Allen (2-0, 3.68 ERA), and freshmen Sean Goldstein...
People are claiming that expansion depleted the already pitching-thin ranks of the major leagues, resulting in ERA's that are approaching the national debt, but don't be too sure...
...leadership of the Undergraduate Council has conjured, out of thin air, an ex post facto restriction on the right of referendum. They have applied this imaginary limitation retroactively, to the petition that was signed by over 1,100 students. Council President Carey W. Gabay '94 asserted in his recent Crimson guest commentary, "Clarifying the U.C.'s Record" (April 18, 1994), that "the Petition did not give students the right to choose which questions they wished to see submitted to a referendum (as required by our constitution)." This alleged requirement of the Constitution is a complete fiction, newly-minted by Gabay...
After the Soviet Union toppled in December 1991, the air giant splintered into more than 150 smaller, independent carriers while the centralized system of maintenance, safety inspections and quality control vanished into thin air. The effect on safety has been chilling. In Armenia last December, 34 people died when a cargo plane illegally carrying passengers crashed and exploded like a Molotov cocktail. Examiners later determined that the aircraft had been loaded with two poorly secured automobiles stuffed with cans of gasoline, and that many of the passengers were also clutching jugs of gasoline as carry-on luggage. In Irkutsk this...