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...decisions of seniors to give or not to give. Rolled out every year in early April, the Senior Gift campaign asks every senior to donate a nominal amount of money back to Harvard. Around the same time, dining halls and common rooms across campus fill with heated and sometimes bitter exchanges over the merits of giving.After three years of reading and listening to the same back-and-forth, it’s my thought that summarizing these arguments might give people a running start in thinking about their own choices. To me, the central goal of the campaign is less...
...blustery afternoon at O’Donnell Field, Harvard took the wind out of Columbia’s sails by jumping out to insurmountable early leads and cruising to victory in both halves of an Ivy League doubleheader.One day after a bitter split with Penn, the Crimson (12-10-1, 7-1 Ivy), relying on stingy starting pitching and early-inning offensive explosions, easily tamed the Lions (7-23, 4-8) en route to wins by 13-5 and 8-1 finals. Seniors Javier Castellanos and Matt Brunnig both turned in strong outings from the hill and the Harvard hitters...
...homespun southern charm of an overnight media celebrity enthralls the nation through television even as he becomes corrupt, bitter, and political...
...besieged Monrovia (pop. 500,000). Doe and Johnson welcomed the troops, but Taylor, challenging their legitimacy, vowed to kill them all. If the fighting cannot be stopped, the attempted overthrow of Doe could threaten the stability of the whole West Africa region. Already, the intervention has ignited bitter controversy among Liberia's neighbors...
...keep on fighting as long as one foreign ECOMOG soldier remains on our soil." The damage inflicted on Liberia by ECOMOG artillery fire and aerial bombing, which is carried out by Nigerian air force planes, he claimed, amounts to $4.5 billion. "The Liberian people are going to be bitter against their neighbors for a long time," he continued. "They are finding it hard to accept being bombed by Nigerian planes...