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...economics exam—purports to understand that the Social Planner must impose regulation when everyone has every incentive to storm Adams for lunch, Dartboard also knows that rules (just like clichés) are made to be manipulated. So when, just as Dartboard and Friend prepared to abandon their quest and retreat to the distant Quincy House, two of Dartboard and Friend’s friends—real live Adams residents—came to the rescue, Dartboard thought he had the answer. “We’re their guests!” Dartboard exclaimed...

Author: By The Editors, | Title: Dartboard | 2/20/2004 | See Source »

...Crimson didn’t abandon its new team-oriented offensive approach, even in the face of the Bears’ high-powered offense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. Hoops' Chemistry Improved in Defeat | 2/17/2004 | See Source »

...that fun-loving, free-spirited side of Harvard breaks loose, and on those nights it seems like the music has a little more bass, the clothing a little more flair, the smiles a little more intimacy…and then the clock strikes 1 a.m., and like Cinderella, we abandon parties long before the night feels complete...

Author: By Matthew W. Mahan, | Title: Time To Step Up for Later Parties | 2/17/2004 | See Source »

BUDGET: $188 MILLION It has launched more vehicles into space than any other nation, but severe budget problems forced it to abandon a moon-flight program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Race For Space: Look Out For Nigeria | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

...Bush administration may soon feel mounting pressure to abandon its "hands-off" position on the mounting chaos in Haiti. That's because the fallout from the evolving civil war in the Western hemisphere's poorest nation could eventually be felt in Florida. Throughout the early 1990s, thousands of refugees made their way to U.S. shores to escape violence and repression in Haiti, and their initial incarceration at the U.S. military facility at Guantanamo Bay was an election issue in the Sunshine State in 1992. It was the flow of refugees following the 1991 coup that overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Should the U.S. Go In? | 2/11/2004 | See Source »

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