Word: bearings
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...we’ve had a lot of success in reforming our police department and bringing more technology to bear on the challenges, increasing the number of police officers in the streets, and driving down crime. We’re one of the top cities in American now on drops in murders and shootings in our city...There’s just a big push on every level, but the good thing is that we are hitting a lot of singles and doubles for our city. Even a few home runs...
...same-sex couples in the majority of states (with notable exceptions in Massachusetts, and more recently, California). High school shootings and other gun violence incidents are ever-raging, yet constitutional debates over the interpretation of the Second Amendment cloud the fact that this the “right to bear arms” is an anachronistic impediment to the vital public policy that is needed to fight the culture of gun violence...
4/23/06: The Crimson reports that passages of then-sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan ’08’s book bear striking similarities to those written by another author, Megan F. McCafferty...
...Yardfest artists, dwindling attendances, and a general lack of confidence in the recently created CEB, things were different this time around. Headlined by Gavin DeGraw and the Wu-Tang Clan, Yardfest was a resounding success, and a tribute to the new and effective attitude the CEB has brought to bear on social planning at Harvard.The office of the Fellow for Campus Life (also called the “fun czar”) seems uniquely situated to help bridge the gap between students and administration. Jason B. McCoy ’08—next year’s fun czar?...
...seems like getting to that last point by way of a largely forgotten 100-year-old sonnet is counterintuitive, bear with me, because it’s completely appropriate. Before this year began, I had no idea that I would be preparing to put myself before a class of middle schoolers and try to teach them math, of all things. As a person who stutters, the idea of teaching younger students was something that had never occurred to me, something that I would have said was simply beyond me. I went through Harvard with vague ideas of graduate school (while...