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There are only two fundamental ways of addressing problems of overcrowding: cut people or add space. Unless Harvard wants to reduce the size of its entering class, it must either obtain additional apartment space, expand existing Houses or build a thirteenth House. The latter, though expensive, would at least avoid increasing the size of the already large Houses and further compromising the sense of community within them. Adding more beds to overflow housing like the DeWolfe complex does not address the underlying problem of crowding; it only shuffles students around. Another proposal noted in the report, to encourage 100 more...
Maloni, one of the nation's top ten scorers before her injury, has now missed 11 consecutive games since being sidelined with stress fractures. Maloni is reportedly practicing with the team again, but Harvard's schedule may be perfectly aligned to avoid her altogether this season...
...think they can do anything. I think KFOR will immediately understand the message. And the first thing they'll do is stop escorting Serbian convoys, to avoid putting their troops in danger...
...effort to test the resolve the new administration in Washington, Iraqi air defenses had in recent weeks begun aggressively "painting" allied warplanes patrolling the "no-fly" zone with radar signals that enable surface-to-air missile strikes. The commanders advised the president to order the strikes, in order to avoid the potential for a U.S. pilot to be shot down. And that certainly provided President Bush a welcome opportunity to show Saddam that he would respond forcefully to any provocation from Baghdad...
...seems that the comments Mansfield makes are simply not understood by those who attack him. He is quoted as saying, "White professors were unwilling to give black students C's to avoid giving them a rough welcome [in the early 1970s]. At the same time they didn't give C's to white students to be fair...