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...perhaps it might seem to produce a net negative effect, coloring our coverage and complicating our personal interactions. Are college journalists incapable of unbiased, high-quality reporting? And when we see that athlete we just criticized in our last column, is there any way to avoid an awkward half-wave?On the whole, I think that Crimson reporters do an excellent job of dodging these issues. We don’t cover the teams that our blockmates or best friends play for; we don’t wear crimson, black, and white in the press box; we usually avoid letting...
...Before the formation of the UC, undergraduate governance was limited to the Student Assembly, founded in 1978 amid a wave of student activism. The body quickly became frustrated by its lack of power, largely because it was not recognized by the College...
...served as an enclave for rich Khmer after independence in 1953. (The former King, Norodom Sihanouk, built a royal residence there that, like most of the old estates in town, now stands empty.) The holidays ended in the 1970s after an American bombing campaign brought the first wave of more than two decades of war, including the Khmer Rouge-led genocide that killed nearly 2 million Cambodians between...
Chaffee says horses that are taken north to Canada are treated humanely. But with the long-distance hauls now being prohibitive, horses in the southern U.S. are being laundered through a series of dealers into Mexico. Says Colorado State's Grandin: "At the Mexican border, they just wave the trucks through. The conditions down there are horrible." Proposed legislation to outlaw U.S. horses for slaughter may get passed, says Grandin, but the law won't be enforceable because Mexican "kill buyers" can circumvent the law by labeling horses as breed stock or for riding purposes. And such...
...childhood obesity epidemic is a tsunami," says David Ludwig, an obesity researcher at Children's Hospital Boston and the co-author of the editorial. "We're beginning to see the wave hitting the shore...