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...weeks I would learn two new things. I know myself, and myself got Cs in gym; adding two moves is pushing it. But I was only there 15 minutes when that night's instructor, Emmanuel, noticed that I was skating with my right knee stiff and suggested that I bend it a couple of inches, just as I was already bending my left one. It sounds subtle, but it was as if I'd been chopping garlic with the blunt side of a knife my whole life and a dinner guest walked into the kitchen and pointed out the blade...
...doubt, a competitive bunch. But this is election season in Harvard Yard, and things within the world of undergraduate organizations have taken nasty turn for the worse. Supposedly charismatic and reputable leaders have taken to groveling for votes, candidates bend constitutional bylaws to justify their wayward conduct, and Veritas has been thrown to the wind in the name of resumes, law school applications and artificial impressions of power. Have we always been like this? Or does putting 6,500 intense, ambitious and hungry young adults in competition with one another naturally result in a rejection of integrity and morals...
...years past, SAC was really a service to students to inspire them in politics," McLaughlin recalls. "[SAC was] an outward looking group who surveyed students, found things that interested the undergraduate body and searched for a political bend to campus affairs that would involve particular organizations...
...made his reputation with adult dramas of manners like The Wedding Banquet and Sense and Sensibility, had a child inside screaming to get out. He wanted to pay homage to his lifelong ardor for martial-arts novels and pictures. He had made beautiful films; now he would bend his considerable artistry to make, dammit, a movie. The sad story has a happy ending. All that agony has produced exactly what Lee hoped to create--a blending of Eastern physical dexterity and Western intensity of performance. High art meets high spirits on the trampoline of an elaborate plot. Crouching Tiger...
Despite the 2-0 loss in South Bend, the Crimson viewed its performance against Notre Dame as a success...