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...their Harvard careers, many (perhaps most) students know horror stories about arbitrary Ad Board decisions--for example, a student accused of plagiarism receiving a harsher punishment than one implicated in a case of sexual assault. Even if student input is not seen as a viable option, a major part of the Ad Board's power lies in the secrecy of its proceedings and the silence imposed on students who appear before it. A reasonable first step would be to shed light on this dark process by publishing a monthly or annual log of Ad Board case decisions, withholding the names...
Suddenly it is deathly quiet, with the exception of the gentle buzz of the fluorescent lamp. Has Johnny collapsed under the weight of his own intelligence? With horror, you realize that Johnny has, uncharacteristically, stopped speaking several minutes ago. He looks at you expectantly, the entire class yearning for insight, perhaps even wisdom...
...horror stories were coin of the realm at Tuesday's Senate Finance Committee hearings into the agency. But TIME correspondent Bruce Van Voorst believes Senator William Roth?s hearings are something of a sideshow: ?We went through all of this a few weeks ago, and now we?re getting four more days of it. Roth is playing to the gallery,? says Van Voorst. ?The problem with the U.S. internal revenue system isn?t the agency; it?s the irreparably complex tax code -- which was created by Congress...
...slit with sharp palm leaves, when children's heads are smashed against tree trunks, when men are slaughtered with the crack of a hoe. These things happened every day in Cambodia for 3 1/2 terrible years, and when the world learned of it, people could only respond with dumb horror...
...more than anything else?" he asks, chuckling. "They had that book The Artist's Way in there, and on the side was stamped L.A. COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT. It just seemed so funny." Downey read whatever friends sent him: a biography of early BBC exec John Reith, Stephen King horror stories, inspirational works. "I can tell you a lot about the Bible if you want," he says. "Both the Old and the New Testament." He goes into a short, funny riff about what might have happened if he had had "some major spiritual awakening" in jail, then laughs about...