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...people, even if the latter don't shine as brightly in the classroom. This, I think, is the rationale behind many individuals' peculiar distaste for final clubs and similar organizations at Harvard. It's not the exclusivity of such groups that bothers people, it's the fact that they allow access to a large network of individuals who can help them out in the real world. It gives members a leg up in the connection game and thus a significant advantage in getting jobs or other favors. This taps into people's dislike of the "who you know" axiom...
...Chechnya over the past three years. But Moscow's methods in the field have been those of conventional warfare, bringing overwhelming force to bear in order to capture territory. And the art of guerrilla warfare is not to hold territory when faced with overwhelming odds, but instead to allow an enemy in, and then through constant ambushes and surprise attacks make the cost of holding that territory unacceptably high...
Berry said the moratorium would allow residents to develop a plan "for the people of this city," enabling them to go to work without cars and increasing safety...
...averted a serious problem. Now, Y2K-related errors are popping up in some more important computer systems. The Y2K consulting firm the Gartner Group reported that some of its clients had problems ranging from a computer that mixed up customer orders to a dentist's office that would not allow appointments to be made for the year 2000 and then crashed, destroying patients' records...
...visit our children? That's what the Supreme Court began deciding Wednesday during opening arguments in a battle for children's visitation rights that pits the paternal grandparents of two little girls against their mother and stepfather. The case hinges on the constitutionality of a Washington State law allowing any adult to petition family courts for visitation rights. Unlike most states, which can order parents to allow such visits only in cases where the parents are unfit or abusive, in Washington the law is unusually broad, allowing petitions even when the parents have done nothing wrong...