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...Amongst his colleagues, Ellison's name is virtually synonymous with graduate student aid reform. He lent his name to a report released in 1998 by a committee he headed. In the report, the committee advocated covering tuition for four or five years for needy students, compared to two years, the previous standard. This meant each department can give aid to the same group of students throughout their careers at GSAS...
...fact, there is no reason why other committees, like History and Literature and Environmental Science and Public Policy should not have their own privileges expanded in the same fashion. These concentrations, popular amongst students, should be afforded the administrative leeway that their reputations deserve. However, improving resources, not conferring departmental titles, should be the priority for any reforms...
...wonder James Baker and David Boies both agreed Sunday that the country would surely heal whomever the Supreme Court taps for the White House on Monday. Forget the red-and-blue nation; we may be looking at a red-and-blue Court, with nine Justices getting divvied amongst the Bush and Gore armies by the principals and their Sunday hosts. Heck, by Christmas we may see Antonin Scalia and John Paul Stevens facing off on "Face the Nation...
...first commercial, we were all fed up with the fuzzy picture and crackled sound of our seventeen-inch screen. We entered the Straus common room, and found ourselves amongst a large group of first-years. This prime episode had attracted Harvard students from across the yard--by my estimation a larger group than had assembled for both Game 5 of the World Series and the presidential election returns...
...show. Whether we like it or not, we are all connected by the Harvard history of "The Simpsons." There are Ivy League jokes seasoned throughout the various episodes (Lisa is terribly depressed at the thought of going to Brown), and more directly, the characters on the show potentially walk amongst us. I can't sit through an hour of "Justice" without thinking, "Is Montgomery Burns modeled after Professor Michael Sandel? Yes--look--he's doing the finger thing." I am not the only student asking myself this question. In a straw poll of a "Justice" class this year about...