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...could use discounted passes for their frequent trips to Boston-area public schools. These examples alone justify Harvard’s participation in the discount program, but in addition, cheaper “T” passes would also encourage students to explore more of Boston’s vast offerings in the way of cultural, artistic and sporting events...
...indifference is a kind of fealty, especially when facing a vast propaganda campaign. Every night for months the top story on the evening news has shown peasants digging ditches for the greater glory of China. In Beijing, the government claims that 2.5 million people have "volunteered" to sweep streets and swab bicycle racks before the congress. Thousands of red flags line boulevards in the capital, and billboards in Tiananmen Square celebrate the "victorious opening" of the congress. By quietly putting up with the inanity of it all, Chinese affirm their acquiescence. Li Shuzhen is one such person. She lives...
...over en masse from what is now Pakistan, these dromedaries delivered freight and carried mail, and when superseded by motor vehicles, were turned loose and left to fend for themselves. Ideally suited to the rough desert conditions of Australia's interior, the hardy beasts soon bred themselves into a vast, wild population of at least 200,000?the world's largest...
...saddle our string of camels. Once yanked away from a tantalizing buffet of acacias, the animals responded to our well rehearsed commands of "Hoosh down," dropping suddenly to their front knees and clumsily concertinaing their back legs under their bellies. Once saddled up we plodded off into the vast, silent emptiness in search of clues to outback history, startling kangaroos and emus accustomed to having the arid landscape to themselves. Was that faint track across a low, stony hill merely made by wild goats? No, over the rise was a roofless, drystone miners' hut, still surrounded by a litter...
Student leaders say part of the dilemma stems from the fact that at a vast institution like Harvard, students expect identity groups to foster a sense of community—one built largely through social ties...