Word: barretts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even internment in an Ivy League school would be "cheaper" than a conventional prison term, Fort noted. He added that Barrett who was found guilty of kidnapping and armed robbery, in addition to wounding her husband, wants to be a journalist...
...against what is truly natural. No matter how wrong Jean Jacques Rousseau was about the nobility of the natural savage, he correctly saw that social order "does not come from nature." Neither does much of what goes into society's consumer goods. Far too often, as Physicians Stephen Barrett and Victor Herbert write in Vitamins & "Health " Foods: The Great American Hustle, the natural label is nothing but "a magic sales gimmick." The resulting confusion may not be a mortal danger, but it is hardly innocent. Unchecked, it is bound to make it harder for rising generations to maintain...
Although it may be presumptuous of me, a lowly, probably stupid cheerleader, to criticize so intellectual a person as the President of The Harvard Crimson, I feel compelled to comment on Paul M. Barrett's recent flight of fancy entitled "Sis-Boom-Bah." Like Mr. Barrett, I bemoan the loss of many fine Harvard traditions. However, I am less dismayed over that decrease in "final club snobbery" than over the collapse of the old mainstay of journalism--accuracy. Call me old-fashioned and reactionary, but I long for a return to the ancient "VERITAS" standards...
...realize, of course, that Mr. Barrett had a point to make and probably could not be concerned with small details such as facts. Still, one might note that, contrary to Mr. Barrett's assertions, the Harvard cheerleaders receive no financial assistance from the University for our activities. We began a fund this summer with contributions from our friends and relatives and we have put in additional money through out own fundraising efforts. I should add that each cheerleader shelled out over $100 to pay for his or her uniform. But enough of these unimportant details. I know, as well...
...third quarter, the Harvard defense had limited Pecevich to 65 yards, while sacking him four times. Pickett mercifully lifted his battle-weary QB and brought in back-up Barrett McGath at the start of the final period...