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Admissions officials also cite the cumulative effect of increased recruiting efforts and the new financial aid program announced in September 1998 as factors in the growth of the early applicant pool...
...They cite the massive overcrowding of House events like the Adams' Masquerade and the Leverett's '80s Dance as evidence that students want and need more social options. Their solution is to have council-sponsored events for first-years every other weekend, and one additional event per year in each House...
...True, no one could cite any hard-and-fast figures on Internet crime, but that didn't keep another expert from using apocalyptic terms, predicting a continued rash of crime from an "electronic bestiary" of "locusts" (what the rest of us call criminals). So we're looking at a future of electronic fire and brimstone? Not likely, says TIME technology writer Joshua Quittner. "Whenever there's a high-tech law-enforcement convention somewhere, we hear cybercops sounding the alarm: Cybercrime is reaching a critical state and doomsday is upon us." It's tough to get worked into a frenzy, adds...
...softness of his own. Social conservatives are particularly suspicious of him. While admiring his service to his country, some have been worried about his commitment to the unborn ever since he told the San Francisco Chronicle last August that he would not work to overturn Roe v. Wade. Others cite his willingness to meet with gay Republicans--though he opposes gay marriage and gay adoption--as a possible indication of openness to the "gay-rights agenda...
...world of literary criticism, as long as one can cite examples, one's ideas will have validity. Scarry quotes liberally from some authors (like Homer and Flaubert) and occasionally from other poets or novelists to support her airy-sounding ideas. But the skeptical reader's sensibilities will hesitate to accept these categories, mechanisms, formats, processes or other structures imposed upon the activity of imagination guided by words. Dreaming by the Book is a rather formulaic approach to an extremely free-flowing activity...