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...though they reaped the benefits of Harvard’s 9-0 campaign as freshmen, few would have claimed to call that season their own. Only two, Ryan Fitzpatrick and Adam Jenkins, held slots on the travel squad, and—Fitzpatrick’s heroic comeback against Dartmouth aside—that was Neil Rose’s and Carl Morris’ team, not theirs...
...that, in the age of markets, the government’s role in providing a social safety net and ensuring fair competition becomes more important, not less. Voters don’t have to take Ted Kennedy’s word for this. As the godfather of laissez-faire, Adam Smith, once wrote, “It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, cloathed and lodged...
...Kirkland suffered a lot from the ban of U-Hauls,” said Kirkland HoCo Chair Adam Kalamchi ’05. “We didn’t really define our space well so we got taken over by a lot of people. Tell the administration to suck it up and let U-Hauls back...
...Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. realize that much of the world thinks they are criminally lucky. The Edge works out most of U2's melodies on his guitar and Bono writes the bulk of the lyrics, leaving bassist Clayton and drummer Mullen Jr. just a few empty bars to fill and plenty of leisure time. But U2's less famous members are hardly dead weight. In fact, their job is to be live weight--or at least ballast. They are steady, difficult to impress and maddeningly unromantic. "If we're in the studio trying to build the rocket," says...
...Adam Zagorin, with reporting by Syed Talat Hussain