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Alums from the wealthiest of Harvard’s schools will be solicited to donate to a new University Fund for Graduate Student Aid, Summers said. And, for the first time, formal incentives will be created to encourage these donors to support priorities at the University’s smaller and less financially flush schools...
WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE GOING OVERBOARD IN BEING TOO FORMAL? American life has been so relentlessly informal that when people have the chance for formality, like high school proms and weddings, they go out of their minds...
Sept. 11 has most of all changed our feelings about disaster. We have a national security warning system now, a sort of mute, color-coded air raid siren, to further undermine our sense of security. And this formal ordering of fear has been supplemented by slippery rumors of attacks. My family goes to New York City for Thanksgiving every year, but this year—because my aunt knows someone who knows someone who heard that someone was planning an attack on shopping centers—we won’t be going to the post-Thanksgiving sales...
...October when the student government passed a resolution condemning a U.S. attack on Iraq by a 20-to-17 vote. Pro-war advocates on campus jumped on it and immediately began pushing for a repeal. On Veterans Day, more than 300 students poured into a campus auditorium for a formal exchange of views between the Young Conservatives of Texas, strong supporters of the President's plan for Iraq, and the Campus Coalition for Peace and Justice, a group formed after the Sept. 11 attacks to oppose the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and which is just as fervently against a second...
Despite the red tape involved in traveling to Cuba, which still has no formal diplomatic ties with the U.S., students in the class and its professor are optimistic about their chances of making the trip...