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...become a professional speed-walker and de facto captain of the Olympic tourist-dodging team. Although some Fabio from Harvard Law School had put my push-up total to shame, my first-place-winning laps around the Yard were fast-paced, yet all-too familiar. Walking away, albeit slowly, from the University Hall finish line, I realized I set a very challenging time to beat at the end-of-summer test. I also recognized that my approach to Harvard encompassed the same need for speed. I’m anything but eager to leave this campus and undergraduate life...
...medical fashions, like those of the Paris runways, do change, albeit with a far greater press of reality. But certain classics, like DTs and blue blazers remain. Of course, that just adds another worry for our docs-in-training; they all want to be specialists - retinal doctors, infertility specialists, wrist surgeons - but will they be able to recognize the classics? And will they realize that their medical education started with something they smelled in fourth grade...
...bleakness on the American office. We know this from the delightfully delusional name Robert Propst gave his invention: the Action Office. Back then, in 1968, most office workers toiled in open bull pens. Propst's pod offered at least as much privacy as they had in a toilet stall, albeit without the door. Corporate America, which is run by people whose offices have doors, has snapped up more than $5 billion worth of the units from maker Herman Miller. Today 70% of U.S. office workers sit in cubicles, which have long transcended mere office furniture to become a pop-cultural...
...saddens me that a lot of innocent people died in Haditha. The members of Kilo Company apparently abused their power while serving there. Perhaps they were confused because they can't distinguish friend from foe. It's as though the My Lai massacre had happened again, albeit on a smaller scale. One thing is sure: history does repeat itself. Jane Carla Yu Quezon City, the Philippines...
...Pennsylvania, U.S. It saddens me that a lot of innocent people died in Haditha. The members of Kilo Company apparently abused their power while serving there. Perhaps they were confused because they can't distinguish friend from foe. It's as though the My Lai massacre had happened again, albeit on a smaller scale. One thing is sure: history does repeat itself. Jane Carla Yu Quezon City, the Philippines Unanswered Questions With all due respect, when Pope Benedict XVI visited the Nazi death camp Auschwitz and asked, "Why, Lord, did you remain silent? How could you tolerate all this...