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...some classes are now being held off-campus to avoid crossing the union’s picket lines...
...food], and they’ve gotten people accustomed to high salt, and it’s a cycle that’s been put in place.” Harvard University Health Services Chief of Medicine, Dr. Soheyla D. Gharib, said that a healthy, low-sodium diet means avoiding sodas and canned foods. “Eating fresh produce is better than getting frozen [food], and avoid anything with preservatives in it.” Gharib said, warning that poor diet habits are on the rise in adolescents. “Harvard students are not immune...
...without connotation, it sounds like it belongs near a country club or a babbling brook, which might boost real estate prices significantly. Further, the proposed name was intelligently designed—“lane” instead of “street”—to avoid unnecessary alliteration, so as not to reflect badly on residents’ poetic sensibilities...
...proposed system of general education would enable driven students to select the broad education that fits them best, but has the inherent danger of enabling some students to avoid challenging or unfamiliar academic territory. The extent to which the Faculty would be willing to risk such flexibility stands as the greatest question surrounding general education’s future at Harvard...
...escaped the ice shower, but couldn’t avoid the verbal deluge. Not only was I a reporter, but I was a girl reporter—the hazing was inevitable. There was the time the rightfielder asked for my phone number, or the time the manager told me I was “nicer to look at” than the regular beat writer...