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...care about the rivalry because of Yale, we care about it for a more important reason. The Game provides Harvard students with the only opportunity all year for uninhibited self-love. A reprieve is granted from the self-consciously humble posture we must adopt during the rest of our lives. During Game weekend, we can boast, brag and gloat about our school without social condemnation. We can cheer for Harvard without coming off as arrogant or elitist. We can wear the crimson "H" on our sleeve, our hats or our shirts without feeling like a show-off or a tourist...
Third and finally, come to us with concrete plans. For instance, the Core has been rotten for years. Why do you believe that you'll be able to fix it? Yeah, shopping period could be improved, but how are you going to convince the faculty to adopt your reforms. As the Stewart regime has shown, sometimes bread and butter student-life issues are a little more complicated than we'd like to think. Convince us that you've given your tactical plans at least a little thought...
...mothers and fathers at NationsBank, including those who adopt a child, can take up to six months of partial home time after their six weeks of maternity or paternity leave, Poe notes. In this program, employees can "phase back" into their jobs, working more than 20 hours and less than 40 hours, if they want...
Which view of our education do we choose to adopt? Perhaps we avert our eyes from what we disagree with...
...colleagues, too, I believe--adopt a `win some, lose some' attitude towards tenure decisions, whether taken within the department or at Presidential level," he wrote. "And while some decisions may be particularly hard to accept, one moves...