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...where, for a few short-lived hours, students perused their peers’ often-unbecoming likenesses online—it seemed that Harvard students’ hopes of a campus-wide, electronic facebook had been dashed. As we all remember, the site was quickly quashed at the behest of students who contested the site’s more unsavory nature of prompting students to rate their peers’ attractiveness without their permission. But, if not for pesky privacy issues, the site’s 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views before being shut down are clear indicators that...
Mansfield, who delivered his ten minute address at the behest of House master Lino Pertile, professor of Romance languages and literature, said that he received several e-mails from questioners after the speech and indicated that he was happy to read them...
While it’s true that students are not forced to participate in the pledge—and haven’t been since a 1943 decision instigated at the behest of Jehovah’s Witness—the daily tradition perpetuates an uncomfortable situation for children, and one in which they can be pressured into saying the creed. The Bush administration and other antagonists have tried to rebuff attempts to sustain the ruling, claiming that to recite “under God” is more a tribute to patriotism than a declaration of religious beliefs...
...perverted social structure in which female students who choose to socialize in final clubs are restricted to a perpetual guest status. They are dependent upon the male members for admittance to the clubs, and once inside, the social dynamic is utterly insulting. The female guests are there at the behest of their male classmates, and they are strictly confined to the rooms that members deem them fit to enter...
...expense of the world’s poorest. In its negotiations of bilateral and regional trade agreements, and most prominently through its influence in the World Trade Organization (WTO), the administration has relentlessly pressured developing nations to adopt stricter patent regimes. It has done so at the direct behest of the pharmaceutical lobby, which spends millions of dollars in political donations and lobbying expenses every year...