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Wootton said she guesses that by the time the class actually enters the school that the numbers of Harvard and Yale students will be nearly the same and attributes the present imbalance to a random fluctuation in numbers, because most years Harvard and Yale have approximately equal matriculators...
...determine when a "cult" becomes a religion, especially in a land where freedom of religion is sacrosanct? My Random House unabridged dictionary defines cult as "a particular system of religious worship" and then, seven lines later, as "a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox or extremist." A cult, in other words, is a religion and isn't one, depending on who's looking...
Which is when I stopped to contemplate the impact all that random violence--wrapped up neatly in a southern Florida package and sealed with the official state police stamp of approval--had on me in my cozy home in upstate New York. Why was I suddenly checking the window locks and drawing the curtains flush with window frames? Why did the rustling of trees against the back door make me stand at attention? Is this the response shows like "Cops" really hope to elicit out here in sleepy TV land...
When Crimson reporters venture outside the walls of Harvard, a reader can never tell what will result. Sometimes the coverage is insightful and timely; sometimes it is random; and sometimes it is downright hilarious...
...random sampling of 3,000 Harvard parents received the survey, which asks about their concerns and their experience with the College...