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...Dartboard would like to focus on the most pernicious fallacy haunting this debate, one succinctly put by letter-writer Bram J. Levy ’04: “Something’s amiss when millions of people can’t find clean water or adequately feed their families, and we whine about our dining halls.” This argument squelches consideration of any quality-of-life issue at Harvard if consistently applied: Are the treadmills at the MAC inadequate and not stacking up to those provided to varsity athletes? Let’s just be thankful...
...dinner? Are 10 cereal choices just not enough for you anymore? Shut the crap up. We need to start focusing on all that we do have and stop complaining about what we don’t. Something’s amiss when millions of people can’t find clean water or adequately feed their families, and we whine about our dining halls...
...doing." Some days, she acknowledges, "I want to curl up and cry and be miserable." But she adds, "I can't. They need me." They are the three daughters Grace, 2, Paige, 1, and baby Cooper, who arrived Dec. 19. Grace is old enough to know something is amiss. "She still asks about Ben all the time," says Jill, who tells the tiny blond her father is in heaven...
Hillary Carroll knew something was amiss. She had spent Memorial Day happily frolicking in her grandmother's swimming pool, but by that evening she was doubling over in pain every time she went to the bathroom. Her mother figured it was probably an infection and the next day took Hillary, then 10, to the pediatrician. Instead of getting a prescription for an antibiotic, however, the 220lb. youngster was immediately admitted to the hospital. Lab tests showed that she had something far more serious--Type 2 diabetes...
...couple of months ago, few expected to see the words "mutual funds" in a corporate-scandal headline. Even Spitzer, who spent most of last year wrestling with Wall Street's biggest investment banks, did not suspect that there was anything amiss in the funds industry until he began investigating it this summer. "Most people had accepted that the mutual-fund industry was reasonably free of these sorts of problems," he says. That reputation is partly what has driven mutual funds' tremendous growth since they were established in their current form in 1940 as a way for the average investor...