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...spring ritual of blocking, with all of its tense and sometimes bitter diplomatic maneuvering, was a more political ordeal for the Class of 2003 than for any first-year class since Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 randomized House assignments in 1995. In spring 2000, Lewis’ decision to cut the maximum blocking group size from 16 to eight students spurred a petition signed by over half the first-year class...
Rosovsky’s proposal was revised—and re-revised—as students and professors registered frequent and often bitter criticisms for reasons both practical and philosophical...
Nicholas Z. Topjian ’03 has spent about three-quarters of his life trying to get to Fenway Park. Raised by a New Jersey family of diehard New York Mets fans, Topjian is still bitter about his parents’ decision to take his older sister to Fenway for two games of the 1986 Mets-Boston Red Sox series and leave him behind. “I was crying that she went and I didn’t,” he recalls. “I used to be a huge Mets fan. Every Saturday...
Details had already been circulated to journalists under embargo. But Venter, by speaking to a reporter at a biotechnology conference in France on Feb. 9, had effectively broken the embargo. Not for the first time in the increasingly bitter rivalry over the genome project, Venter's version of the story would hit the headlines before his rivals'. "We simply do not have enough genes for this idea of biological determinism to be right," Venter told the Observer. "The wonderful diversity of the human species is not hard-wired in our genetic code. Our environments are critical...
That Harvard had not medaled at Sprints had been particularly bitter given the unequal racing conditions imposed on half of the lanes due to a windstorm, and the desire to rectify the Eastern results fueled the Crimson during the ensuing weeks of practice...