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...apparent as the country celebrated the anniversary of the successful crossing of the Suez Canal by Egyptian troops. In other years, such an observance would have been the occasion for anti-Zionist rhetoric. This year the mood was celebratory-partly because it coincided with the religious festival of 'Id el Fitr, when Moslems end their month-long Ramadan fast...
...days with very little-we'd have a quick meal. The day's activities would vary. The women frequently were sent out to steal. If we were near a university, they would go into women's dorms and steal purses. If they managed to get an ID and a checkbook, they'd go out as fast as possible to kite the checks." Another technique was to comb birth records in city halls to find a child who had been born at about the same time as a cell member but who had died in infancy...
...rule on drug use is mild compared to the one against not showing your bursars card to any University official who demands it (a rule intended to make identifying rowdy demonstrators as easy as passing a hat for ID cards). The University "discourages" drug use, it does not prohibit it. Attempts to enforce a stricter rule on drugs--like trying to enforce parietal regulations--would meet unmanageable defiance...
Summer school students who show up with an ID at the box office on Monday night or in advance can purchase tickets at a reasonable half price. Monday, July...
...Harvard, as elsewhere, we've come to treasure inefficiency as a substitute for less capricious guarantees of benevolence. If the tangled mess of Rules Relating is not oppressive, it's because it is so easy to circumvent all of the "ordinarilies." And if we have to carry around ID cards with photographs on them, there is comfort to be found in their blurry unrecognizability. There are some liberties we've given up in principle to have in fact. If the identination program is only a more efficient version of the old bursar card, that alone is reason enough...