Word: processing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Harvard's voices are too profound and various to hear and process all at once, just as the University itself is too large and diverse to hold in one steady glance. But a walk through the Yard the week before Commencement gave me a chance to listen to some of the voices I've ignored over the last four years, and I stopped longest at my favorite plaque, on the right wall of the gate opposite the Science Center, where Emerson's journal entry from a day in 1836 is inscribed in elegant lettering. The slate tablet speaks more quietly...
...giant (if at times incomprehensibly complex) rally in front of University Hall for the rights of workers and against sexual violence towards women in 1999, to the star-studded event in front of Littauer for a living wage this spring, with calls for student centers, a more open tenure process and improved advising echoing in between. Students in the Class of 2000, if they remember anything beyond their individual experiences here, will likely remember the energy expended (not always successfully) for the better treatment of members of the community on all levels...
...Trust is a sharp departure from the days when RUS's undergraduate leaders had sole discretion over the grant process...
...kosher, but pork is a staple of democracy - and as the only democracy in the Mideast peace process, Israel is being reminded that it that can make life difficult. Prime Minister Ehud Barak suffered a setback in parliament Wednesday when a key coalition partner ditched his government and added the crucial votes that passed a bill requiring early elections. Although an early poll would almost certainly shut down the peace process for the year, the dispute was unrelated to any concessions Barak may be planning to make to the Palestinians or to Syria. The ultra-orthodox Shas party, the second...
...years under the hot lights of both Washington and Wall Street, and which now has to gear up for years more of the same. "Just because things are going to get harder for the government doesn't mean they get any easier for Microsoft," says Cohen. "This process itself is inflicting significant damage." Bill Gates was the prime beneficiary of the legal paralysis that hobbled IBM in the '80s - he knows all too well that in the tech business, winning or losing the case is almost beside the point. Microsoft may yet dodge the hatchet, eventually, but its days...