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...humanitarian organization that seeks to provide aid to the Palestinian people will inevitably come under attack from those with a political agenda against the fulfillment of the basic human rights of Palestinians," Yasin said...
Judging by his story on Starbucks' "new" vacuum coffee pot [TREND ALERT, Oct. 23], you need to send Joshua Quittner to basic-science class. The vacuum coffee pots (which can actually be purchased for a few dollars at secondhand stores) push the water to the top funnel because of pressure created by boiling water in the bottom vessel, not by a vacuum in the upper chamber. When the bottom vessel is allowed to cool, a vacuum forms and sucks the coffee back down. The only thing new about this technology is Starbucks' $169 price tag. BILL CONNELL Florence...
Lauded by some council members as "awesome" and "ingenious," the plan is more appropriately called pitiful. That the supposed governing body of the undergraduate population has been reduced to collecting garbage in order purchase the basic technological equipment that it needs to function is not only degrading to council members, but damages the council in the eyes of the student body as a whole. Indeed, it is disgraceful that the council has not been financially responsible enough to set aside funds for its own technological upkeep--especially with high speed personal computers selling for as little as $400 on discount...
Last year she and a roommate headed an initiative called the "Mather House Creed" which set out basic principles to help build a sense of community at Mather...
...results hours before the polls close so that television networks can plan their coverage, which is, in a word, so much b.s. - nobody needs that much time to rehearse "we're projecting a Democratic win in Massachusetts." The real reason is that not to release early violates the basic raison d'être of journalists, who live for those rare and ego-inflating moments when you're the one in on the secret and you decide when to let everyone know. And it's going to take a lot more than Florida to wean reporters off that...