Word: groupings
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...what would actually improve our lives at Harvard, or, to return to my previous statement, what do students really want from their student governments? A possible answer is ensuring the ability of an individual to belong to and take pride in an organization, or what I like to call group cohesion...
...memory of the council that is necessary to test the substance of his claims. What most caught my eye about the gentleman's letter was his claim that the council "is simply not a factor in most students' lives." Naturally, I take the gentleman to include himself in this group. Indeed, my guess is that he has generalized his own experience at this school for all students. And this got me to wondering, what must this gentleman's experience be like if nothing the council has accomplished has been a "factor" in his life at Harvard...
Jukovsky remains active in the Student Coalition for Alternatives to MCAS (SCAM), working two afternoons a week with the student-run group...
...instead. His reasoning for this seemingly drastic action rests upon what he calls "the truth" that the "council...is simply not a factor in most students' lives." Thus, his reflections conclude, "doesn't it seem silly that The Crimson would devote so much valuable space and attention to a group that many undergrads consider--either accurately or otherwise--as a bunch of resume-building windbags...
...plot to attack American and Israeli targets in Jordan last New Year. That plot was foiled by Jordanian intelligence officials, and six of the 28 accused - including Hijazi - were sentenced to hang. (Following his extradition, Hijazi must now be retried, according to Jordanian law.) But the Islamist militant group planning the attacks was cleared by a Jordanian military court of any organizational links with Bin Laden, although some of them were said to have sought financing from the Saudi financier's associates...