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...continually amazed by the richness of College life here. Cambridge Colleges (there are 31) have much that Harvard Houses lack—to begin, a truly tight-knit community. Each has its own social spaces, including a bar, in addition to a social calendar that features a regular flow of themed parties and formal dinners. Moreover, each College boasts dozens of extracurricular societies. While Cambridge undergraduates are as busy with extracurriculars as anyone at Harvard, what seems radically different here is the sense of importance that students attribute to their non-academic pursuits. There is, perhaps, less at stake. Extracurriculars...
...These viewers, admittedly a small shard of the TV universe, deluge us with one question: What can we do? If there are two Americas - separate and unequal - and if the drug war has helped produce a psychic chasm between them, how can well-meaning, well-intentioned people begin to bridge those worlds...
...scoring slugfest with Harvard, the Big Red certainly could have used the boost. But Maduka didn’t show up.Cornell lost 51-48 in an ugly game of bricks, long rebounds, and a few clutch Harvard free throws down the stretch.The endless string of hypotheticals can begin. What if she had been there? What if Dartmouth’s buzzer-beater had rimmed out on Friday night? What if Maduka had made it back to Cambridge for the final minutes of Saturday’s game?But if Harvard sweeps Yale and Brown this weekend, the Crimson will clinch...
...politics that made us unwilling to act against genocide in Rwanda in 1994 or in Darfur today. An astonishing number of young people are coming out in support of the junior Senator of Illinois as he has spoken for the need to change the trajectory of the country and begin moving in a new direction. Something rare is happening in America where young people are not merely looking to one person to initiate change, but more and more they are looking at one another as change agents who have a mutual responsibility to make this world a better place...
...eventually softens (Eva on “Top Model” Cycle Three, Christian on this season’s “Project Runway”), and the early star who falls only to rise again (CariDee, “Top Model” Cycle Seven). And we begin to see these patterns not only on TV, but also in politics, in the workplace, and even in the classroom...