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Think, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all you: imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless the grader is of the Wheat-stone bridge-double differential CH3C6H2(NO2)3 set--those people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember there is a person, a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does that person want to read...
...deluge are starting to pour in like river water through a levee of sandbags, flood victims are wondering how the impressive damage estimates and aid packages relate to them and their losses. Complains Allen Seeburger, an uninsured farmer in St. Charles County, Missouri, who lost his corn and wheat harvest to the flood: "It takes $100 of taxpayers' money to get a dollar where it's needed...
...Missouri, the latest disaster victims are applying for assistance. Farmer Marie Oldenberg, 74, spent an afternoon in a local high school filling out government forms. She and her husband were hoping to earn money for retirement this year, but the flood destroyed their entire crop of corn, beans and wheat. "The government forms asked lots of questions -- what our income was, if we had insurance and how much money we had in the bank," says Oldenberg, who is not optimistic about getting her losses covered. "Maybe at least we'll get reimbursed for our motel bill...
...bags has been good therapy for people eager to do something to combat the floods while keeping their minds off their losses. "All we can do is sandbag," said John Boerding, 50, who figured that more than half his 2,000-acre crop of soybeans, corn and wheat in St. Charles County had already been destroyed by late last week, and was worried that his home would sink as well. "What else can we do? Most people in this area don't even have flood insurance." But even if there are no outbreaks of disease because of the filth...
Tiffany C. Graham '96 and Alynda D. Wheat '96 said the group is planning the Harvard Union, an organization which will provide "a forum for scholarly national debate" on Afro-centric issues and bring speakers to campus...