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...regional alignment rules worked to Harvard’s advantage. In the aftermath of Sept. 11, the NCAA Championships and Competition Cabinet issued a directive to avoid air travel, if at all possible, for NCAA Regional tournaments...
...away from the Russians after it had been presented to them. It was a wise call to award a medal to each team. Figure skating is an art. That's why I watch. But something needs to be done about the manner in which it is judged to avoid disputes in the future. JOHN P. FARRIS Alamo, Texas
...modern tourism--economical packages, efficient tours, reliably standardized accommodations, every detail adjusted to make the traveler feel at home while abroad. The drawback, of course, is that it's so bland and formulaic (museum, monument, gift shop, beverage! Repeat!). Hence there are vagabond travelers who remain determined to avoid all that--to seek out destinations that offer interest and beauty but don't seem geared for the masses. While living in Scotland a few years ago, I was one of those. I wanted to travel to the farthest reaches of Great Britain, far away from Stonehenge and Loch Ness...
...mothers no longer know how to properly feed their babies, he listens to tales of prisoners who subsisted on five grains of rice a day in Pol Pot's work camps and insightfully wonders how much of the story is being left out?what horrible deeds were committed to avoid being dragged away and bludgeoned to death. Here, unlike in Vietnam, he engages the central question of how survivors continue their lives with such a grisly past literally seeping out of the ground beneath them. The sad answer: they look the other...
Alperowicz and others echo the faculty’s reasoning—that a size of 80 is small enough that it’s not too impersonal, but big enough to avoid hearing from the same two students all of the time...