Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Suggesting a move that would drastically alter the shape of Harvard's calendar and break with a 350-year-old tradition, two sophomores have formed a new group called Students for Schedule Reform (SSR), in the hopes of moving the fall exam period to be before the winter break...
Faced with the threat of a lawsuit, Harvard officials have said that they may alter plans for controversial changes in the Board of Overseers election process, a lawyer for Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) said yesterday...
...last November, the California board of education faltered under pressure from religious right-wingers and overruled the state's curriculum commission to alter a guideline for the teaching of evolution in California's schools. Darwinian evolution will no longer be presented as fact, but as both fact and theory, an equivocation pleasing to the religious right because few understand that to scientists "theory" is not a synonym for mere "hypothesis." Among other concessions, mention of a 1987 Supreme Court decision denying scientific status to so-called creation science will be deleted...
...chapters full of Alcoholics Anonymous rhetoric overwhelm and the words "fuck" and "cock" appear for the thousandth time, Wing interrupts and asks Sand if this isn't all a little ridiculous. Sand reminds her that life is ridiculous and that trying to turn reality into a novel cannot alter the excesses of life...