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Despite the constrained financial situation, the Committee on House Life rejected a proposal to increase House committee funding. Yet just this past month, it was reported that Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 would seek to increase funding for the council. While this is a welcome announcement for cash strapped student groups who benefit from Finance Committee grants, it sends a message that the administration clings to the ideas of the past, viewing the council as the best organization to represent Harvard undergraduates...
...year ago this month, the Cambridge School Committee voted not to punish teachers who oppose MCAS or students who boycott the test...
Last spring, Jukovsky helped orchestrate a boycott of about 100 sophomores. When district MCAS scores came out last month, they showed a precipitous decline for CRLS. Cambridge school officials have attributed much of the plunge to the high proportion of boycotters in the 500-member tenth grade class...
...bear to listen to lawyers droning for so long? The campaign itself went on for two years more than it should have, and the pettifogging afterblather is more than decent citizens should be asked to endure. I have pulled the covers over my head. In the month since the election, I have reread "War and Peace," interminable and still the greatest novel. No one ever described the fog of battle better than Tolstoy. I have lately been comforting myself with the Book of Proverbs, which I carry around in a pocket edition from Grove Press and dip into whenever...
...Though Yemen's prime minister, Abdul Karim al-Iryani, told the AP that there was "no question" that the three men were involved in planning the attack, he gave no details of the specific charges they'll face when their trial begins at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. He did, however, concede that the three suspects were veterans of the "Afghan Arab" brigades who helped Afghanistan repel the invading Soviets. And that, of course, certainly goes into the pile of circumstantial evidence linking the attack to Osama Bin Laden, who was the key organizer...