Word: case
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...prizes in all realms proliferate, the outcomes -- who wins an Oscar or a Pulitzer -- seem evermore capricious and sentimental. Not, however, in the case of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field's Nobel equivalent. The Pritzker, awarded since 1979, has earned an unsurpassed reputation for rigor, good sense and catholic taste (the $100,000 prize is an American creation, but half of the winners have been from abroad). The 1990 Pritzker laureate, announced this week, should only redouble the prize's prestige: Italy's Aldo Rossi, 58, has inspired and influenced a generation of younger architects, despite a modest built...
...believe that the Administrative Board necessarily should have disciplined Michael D'Amato '90. We do believe that by dismissing the case, the Ad Board has left open the question of what constitutes "hate speech." The right to be hateful does not take precedent over the right to be free of harassment, and the Ad Board's response has left minority students of all groups uncertain about how much support the University will give us in cases of verbal harassment...
...case for divestment is still as strong as ever. Despite some superficial reforms, such as the recent release of African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, the oppressive apparatus of apartheid remains intact. Support for divestment and corporate withdrawal is still almost universal among Black South African leaders. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and member of the Harvard Board of Overseers, recently advised the Board that divestment remains the most powerful instrument for bringing about real reforms in the apartheid system...
Ultimately, faculty members say, the only way to increase faculty involvement in tutorial teaching College-wide is to enlarge the faculty in all departments. Faculty members say they hope that the results of the extensive curriculum review will make a strong case for an expansion of the Faculty that Spence has lobbied for from the start of his tenure as dean...
...turns out, I have found East-Coast Harvard students no better-informed about the Midwest than most other Easterners. Residents of the East-Coast states suffer from a severe case of "Eastern-centrism," a common mental disorder that causes the sufferer to believe that the universe revolves around an epicenter located somewhere between Boston and Washington...