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...define cheating at Harvard? Many students admit they can’t pinpoint the meaning of the term. Does a blowjob on the side count as cheating? What about hastily copying your roommate’s Core problem set a few minutes before class? Merriam-Webster can’t tell students what cheating means in their daily lives. But in this Scrutiny, a number of past and current students—whose real names have been changed in this story—give FM their own accounts...
RESIGNED. HARVEY PITT, 53, as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission; in Washington. The embattled Bush appointee, whose 15-month tenure was marked by missteps and corporate scandals, exited on election night, following embarrassing revelations about his appointee to head a new accounting-oversight board, William H. Webster...
DIED. MIKE WEBSTER, 50, Hall of Fame pro-football center whose staunch play on the offensive line helped the Pittsburgh Steelers capture four Super Bowl championships in the 1970s; of a heart attack; in Pittsburgh, Pa. After he left the NFL, Webster suffered bouts of depression and memory loss, apparently brought on by repeated blows to the head during his playing years...
...Clark took "Looner" observations, ate slices of "Water millions," tracked "bearfooted Indians" and was proud to serve the "Untied States." Clark's spelling is more famously imaginative--he found 27 different ways to spell the word Sioux. (In fairness, even the best-educated Americans displayed erratic spelling until Noah Webster's dictionary standardized spelling two decades later...
...speech, Webster reported, was to be a re-exploration of the word holocaust, which has taken on such unfortunate semantic connotations since the horrible events of 1939-1945 in Europe. While unequivocally condemning the actions of the Germans in World War II—actions that “hijacked” the meaning of his favorite word—Webster has pointed out that “holocaust” did not always have the stigma of being connected to arguably the greatest concentration of organized evil in human history. Originally, he says, holocaust was just a word...