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Harvard has some catching up to do--we need to rid ourselves of the stubborn anachronism of the University policy on organizations. Kenneth D. DeGiorgio '93 Adam Webb '93 Founders, AALARM
...follows in the tradition of the original 1965 Voting Rights Act. Congress, hoping to solidify the voting rights guaranteed in the Fifteenth Amendment, passed the first act "to rid the country of racial discrimination in voting." Over the past 30 years, Congress and the courts have outlawed poll fees, literacy tests and intelligence examinations...
...weevil is quiet and well-kept, and liked by all of the dorm. It would be ridiculous to have to get rid of it," Alexander said...
...very popular, so a blow aimed at him would hurt the party and the people. That's probably why he was marked for sacrifice: his death provided a pretext for shaking up the country, alarming the people so that they would accept the terror and let Stalin get rid of the undesirables and "enemies of the people...
...last summer, have signed up for the post office's preference service, which eliminates many third-class and sales mailings. The Direct Marketing Association blames the backlash on the 1989 book 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth. The best seller's No. 1 recommendation: get rid of unnecessary mail. "If only 100,000 people stopped their junk mail," the book claims, "we could save about 150,000 trees every year...