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...activities are such an important part of life at Harvard, and because they are so ridiculously competitive, most of us have trouble scraping up a good time, much less have the best years of our lives. We're too worried about how we're going to fill in the blank space in our resumes...
Midfielder Kristen Fowler did a nice job of plugging up the middle. Fullback Francie Walton was a corner-monster, deflecting several point-blank shots. And goalie Lisa Yadao came through with flying pads to thwart a semi-breakaway...
Sure, these proctors try to make themselves useful. They hand out extra blue books and will fetch you a pencil. They tell you when to put your pencils down. They pass out the blank exams and collect the blue books we have filled with wisdom...
...Staraya Ploshchad, strollers stare in wonder at the blank windows and locked doors of the vast gray building that is the headquarters of the vanishing Soviet Communist Party. Laughter and cheers erupt as a 5-year-old boy, encouraged by his father, urinates on the wall. A graffitist has scrawled DOSHLI (We've come this far) -- the slogan of Soviet soldiers fighting to victory over Germany in World...
After the Bay of Pigs, and with tension rising in Berlin, John Kennedy went to Vienna believing that he could find some agreement with Nikita Khrushchev on how to reduce the threat of nuclear war. Instead he drew blank stares and threats. Throughout that grim summer Kennedy would talk to friends about Khrushchev's seeming indifference to the specter of millions of people dying in a nuclear exchange. "I'd never encountered anybody like that before," Kennedy mused...