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...find it especially ironic that my first direct encounter with reverse racism occurred at Harvard. The minority students in Harvard Hall that night are not exactly battling to claim a stake in society. Much to their credit and due to their abilities, they are well on their way to becoming prosperous citizens. I wonder if there is a special program for white, Kansas farm boys who want to work on Wall Street but don't have the advantage of a Harvard diploma...
...fact that we may be incapable of maintaining an atmosphere in which people trust each other and have a stake in making sure that that trust is not violated--by themselves or anyone else--means that something is wrong in these hallowed halls. Ideally, we would not need an honor code to have unproctored exams; people would live their lives by an internal sense of integrity. But the fact that Harvard decided after much consideration not to try an honor code demands a serious moral inquiry. It forces us to ask: Is there honor at Harvard...
...medics from a private ambulance company had converged on the scene to administer oxygen to the woman and transport her to a hospital. Across this Denver suburb, a variety of rescue scenes were being repeated in similar all-hands fashion. Boasts fire chief Ray Barnes: "When lives are at stake, we want the fullest emergency response possible...
...September owned 814 homes and 265 cemeteries, and has been driving hard to catch up to the industry leader, Service Corp. International of Houston (2,832 homes, 331 cemeteries). This year the Loewen Group has acquired almost $1 billion worth of additional funeral homes and cemeteries, including a stake in Rose Hills Memorial Park outside Los Angeles, the largest cemetery in North America, which Loewen acquired after outbidding SCI. The company's expansion may thrill investors but probably doesn't bode well for consumers, despite founder and ceo Raymond Loewen's penchant for describing the Loewen Group as the industry...
...critics and independent operators agree there is more at stake than just money. With consolidation has come a level of depersonalization that family-owned funeral homes, for all their other alleged sins, have managed to resist. "It really shows that nothing is sacred," says Karen Leonard, executive director of California's Redwood Funeral Society (her E-mail name is CheapExit), who was Mitford's research associate. "You are just part of the machine. This is just another body. This is just another family. Sell, sell, sell...