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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long as at least one dorm within each of the clusters was accessible, Harvard proposed, then the needs of disabled students were being adequately served. Thayer, Weld, and Greenough would be made accessible to students, while some other dorms--such as Grays, Hollis, and Mass. Hall--would remain totally inaccessible...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner and Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Full ADA Compliance Still Elusive | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

Attempting to gain legitimacy within the College administration, the founders have submitted their constitution to University Hall for approval, and they have acquired two Faculty sponsors, whose names have yet to be revealed by group officials...

Author: By John M. Gravois, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Group Urges Comfort, Not Activism | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

Noah D. Oppenheim's piece (Op-Ed, Oct. 22), in its unconditional praise for Steven Emerson's documentary "Jihad in America," unwittingly conflates, Islam and political terrorism. There is a tendency in American society to view Middle Eastern politics solely within the context of Islam. One indication of the fact that people do not separate religion and politics is that people do not know the difference between an Arab and a Muslim. Indeed, in a conversation with me Wednesday night, Oppenheim asked me the difference between the Society of Arab Students and the Harvard Islamic Society. Arab is an ethnicity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...Islamic terrorists." The word "Islam" refers to the religion and its ideology while "Muslim" refers to the worshippers themselves. This is an important difference. The dangerous misnomer Islamic terrorist implies that the religion itself is the cause or the motivation of the violence--that terrorism can be carried out within the dictates of Islam. By referring to such a terrorist as a Muslim terrorist, one merely refers to the fact that the terrorist happens to be a Muslim without implicating the religion as a whole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...human cell is a marvel, not just of engineering but also of traffic control. Proteins are constantly shuttling within it to build and repair substructures, process energy and carry out the myriad functions that keep this basic unit of life alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Stockholm Calling. Oslo Too | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

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