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...We’re going to the Quad, and we’re doing a Quad run,” said a freshman, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid disciplinary consequences. “That’s right—suck it HUPD [Harvard University Police Department...
Some upperclassmen seemed sympathetic to the freshmen’s cause. One River House resident—who asked to remain anonymous to avoid punishment—hosted around 50 freshmen in his small dorm room...
Each transgender person experiences the process of transition in a different manner—some prefer to avoid medical intervention and others seek the full range of possible treatments, from genital reconstruction to hair removal...
...couple of procedures for a recurrent benign brain tumor, and heart-bypass surgery that sent him into cardiac arrest. And in a political career that has spanned 45 years, he has regularly sidestepped doom. Specter's most celebrated swerve came last April, when he switched parties to avoid a Republican primary against a conservative challenger he had barely beaten in 2004. He acknowledged he could never win the GOP nomination for a sixth term after voting for Barack Obama's economic stimulus package - a move that was one heresy too many for the shrinking Pennsylvania Republican Party. (See pictures from...
Papandreou had tried to avoid provoking Greece's powerful unions and initially resisted making cuts to civil servants' base pay. But after the initial round of austerity measures, announced in December, failed to convince international markets and the country's European partners that Greece could rein in its ballooning deficit on its own, Papandreou's administration was forced to tack on a second, harsher round of measures. The $6.5 billion package includes cuts in civil servants' salaries, a freeze on pensions and a host of tax increases, including a 2% bump in the value-added...