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...temporary outbreak of sanity came as the Israelis and Palestinians signaled that they are settling in for protracted combat. Attacks by Palestinian bombers on pizzerias and commuter buses are still common, but the most recent raids have targeted Israeli military installations, soldiers and police. On Tuesday gunmen from al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militia linked to Arafat's Fatah faction, ambushed and killed six Israeli soldiers at a West Bank checkpoint. That prompted Israeli assaults from land, air and sea against Arafat's few security buildings and police stations in the Gaza Strip and West Bank that haven't already...
Variable meal plans would also do a great deal to combat the ever-present problem of wasted food. At present, our unlimited meal plan tends to grossly exaggerate the amount of food we actually take; when all your food is free, there’s no reason not to pile twice as much on to your tray as you actually want in order to avoid having to go back for more later, and thus we needlessly throw away tons of perfectly edible food. A meal plan with per-item prices would greatly reduce the incentive to waste food...
...unacceptable and must be stopped; the only question is how to prevent it. And although the campaign was effective in producing emotions of shock and sadness, it offered no way of channeling these emotions into productive action. On the Coalition signs I read, the only suggestion to combat sexual violence was the implied message of “Don’t be a sexual predator”—a personal message that, on Valentine’s Day, verges on the insulting...
...sheets. But for singles, the day can seem more like a burden as they endure exposure to public displays of affection and the abrasive hum of those three little words: “I love you.” Fret not! FM offers three other little words guaranteed to combat loneliness: Do it yourself...
...side-effect). Many disagree, and argue that grade inflation is a problem only because grades are so compressed—because the current range of grades makes it difficult for professors to adequately differentiate between students. They have proposed adding new grades to Harvard’s system to combat grade compression. Though we disagree with this premise, it is worthwhile to explain why many of the “solutions” to grade inflation drawn from it would be wholly inadequate...