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...JetBlue deal seemed to strike a nerve in University Hall—and despite all the specific rules laid out in the Student Organization Handbook, confusion remains.According to Judith H. Kidd, Associate Dean of the College, corporate sponsors cannot have a presence on campus, a rule intended to prevent Harvard from becoming a giant billboard. But then, how could Veritas Records partner with Adidas for last year’s CD-release party at the Roxy? And how come a Kirkland House junior had almost 600 hundred promotional bottles of Vitamin Water sitting in his room last spring, ready...
...veer a few millimeters off course to let you by on the sidewalk. The same students who sip a $4 grande vanilla bullshit concoction while waiting for their treat. Even the lactose-intolerant kids stand in line, get their scoop, and throw it out, just so they can prevent a fellow student from getting a taste of Chunky Monkey...
...seems that the only kind of thing Harvard students want is something that only comes in limited quantity, for a limited time only. It’s not that they want it so badly. It’s that they know their having it will prevent another Harvard student from getting it. And it is this grubbiness, this “next man” attitude, seen everywhere from the dining hall to the recruiting room, that makes Harvard one of the most miserable campuses in the country...
...William Winkenwerder Jr., assistant defense secretary for health affairs, has said the Pentagon has taken steps to prevent a recurrence of Gulf War Syndrome. Many experts believes its myriad of symptoms- pain, fatigue, diarrhea and cognitive impairment, among others-is linked to the toxic chemical soup, including Saddam Hussein's stockpiles of nerve agents destroyed by U.S. forces, that contaminated the battlefield in the 1990-91 conflict. "We've done quite a lot more to set up preventive health systems-monitoring of soil, water, air and just ongoing monitoring of the environment to ensure as best we can that people...
When people living in the remote Danube Delta villages of Ceamurlia de Jos and Maliuc heard last week that their chickens and ducks would have to be destroyed to help prevent the spread of the Avian flu virus, they reacted in different ways. Some wept and prayed as they handed over their birds; others tried to hide them. Said Ceamurlia resident Gina Braileanu, "My uncle was caught hiding a hen close to his chest. He had to give...