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Stanford? Certainly some college presidents prefer that tennis club by the Pacific. You know the place: You've seen one Coppertone commercial, you've seen Stanford. Some people get mugged traversing the Cambridge Common. But at least no one in the Yard dies a violent death from runaway frisbees or...
This focus on the "broadness" of the definition has created the unfortunate misconception that all this fuss is about a few off-color jokes. It is not. The fuss is about the fact that one out of five women--by the time they graduate from Harvard--have experienced a serious...
In this as in other issues, Fowler's detractors say that his motto, "Let the marketplace decide," translates as "Let the industry decide." They contend that his stated intention of making the broadcast media as unfettered as print ignores a fundamental distinction: the number of broadcast outlets is limited...
JEFFREY ENGERUD'S case, the basis for the New Jersey ruling, translates this abstract principle into an everyday applicable rule. Sometime in 1972, a vice principal Sommerville High School in New Jersey "heard" Jeff dealt in illegal drugs. One day a detective told this same vice-principal that an anonymous...
I Tatti's farms are administered by a fattore, who negotiates the terms of the farmer's employment. Ackerman translates this word as "bailift" and likens the official to the overseer on a Southern plantation.