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...been difficult for UC presidential and vice-presidential candidates with male final club affiliations. Tickets boasting final club ties have had their ambitions dashed in each of the last five years, falling to opponents with no such affiliation. And in the last two years alone, vice-presidential candidates S. Adam Goldenberg ’08 and Nicholas B. Snow ’09—members of the Fox club and the A.D. respectively—were forced to answer pointed questions about their final club commitments during the campaign process before losing on election day.Schwartz...
...said. “It’s not too devastating early in the season, because you can always bounce back.”O’Connor did just that in the wrestleback draw, grinding out a 4-3 decision over Boise State’s No. 10 Adam Hall to claim a spot on the medal stand.While three superb efforts boosted the Crimson to a respectable team finish, the squad witnessed first-hand the importance of depth. While Harvard’s remaining wrestlers competed fiercely throughout the weekend, only Peppelman (149) notched more than one victory.After falling...
...miniature fast food meals,” small enough to hold in the palm of one’s hand. “In 10 years, half our country will be dead because of obesity, so here’s our market,” said first-year student Adam R. Ludwin, moving to the next slide, which he had never seen before. “Skinny people who surf,” he described the next image, without missing a beat. Such was the nature of The B.S. Contest—with B.S. standing for “business...
...Adam R. Gold ’11, a Crimson editorial writer, lives in Adams House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...
While we were talking, a filthy young man in rags approached and started distractedly unpicking the threads of a knitted woollen cap. Diar introduced "Adam," whose entire family had been cut down in front of him in 2004. Something snapped. Adam was convinced another janjaweed onslaught was imminent, and told me he was getting terrible headaches from the janjaweed horsemen galloping around in his head. He asked if I could give him a lift to his home village. "It's the time of mangoes and guavas," he said. Watching him wander off, Diar told me Adam was obsessed by memories...