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Last spring, each Quad house hosted separate formals. They reunited for this year's fall dance, organizers said, in order to combat traditional low attendance...
...dangerous areas at unpopulated times, and increased guard visibility in the Houses. We hope to organize a "Take Back the River" fundraising run, sponsor outreaches and self-defense classes in the Yard and Houses, and compile lists of running partners in different areas of campus, in an effort to combat the escalating violence around campus...
...might agree to send a similarly token NATO observer force, easily deployed and easily withdrawn. If the Bosnians want a few Americans with a flag and fatigues to lend symbolic legitimacy to the agreement, as in Sinai today--fine again. But no "implementation force," heavily armed and ready for combat. That is an invitation to disaster...
These rejections are not entirely the responsibility of the admissions office. Harvard is constrained in who it can admit in many sports by an Academic Index instituted in the 1980s to combat charges that academic standards for athletes were declining...
Kurz refuses the ideas that the family breakdown and divorce are direct causes the work force without devoting though time to their families. Instead of declaring a media war on the decline of the family, Kurz demands real legislation to combat family poverty and domestic violence...