Word: boastfulness
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Even Harvard’s reigning NCAA national champion wrestler Jesse Jantzen ’04 and current assistant wrestling coach and former Oklahoma standout Jared Frayer have gotten into the act. Their respective websites boast extensive articles, photos, schedules, and even merchandise—most notably “Jesse Jantzen” t-shirts and others emblazoned with “Air Frayer...
...undergraduate fun-seekers. Weekly Undergraduate Council party grants for in-room events enhance Harvard’s social scene, grants which are unknown at the vast majority of American universities. Many universities do not even allow their students to throw parties in their rooms. And although Harvard may not boast rows of Natural Light-soaked fraternities and sororities, it does have the residential house system to provide students with social anchors...
Harvard, of course, does boast a wealth of contacts worldwide, but these are not put to use for students. Faculty have acquaintances in global academic circles, and the alumni network itself is probably the most exciting array of professionals connected to Harvard with interesting occupations. These networks could easily be put to use for undergraduates: Harvard is notoriously in touch with everyone to solicit donations. Zou, who studies government, was told at OCS that she could look through a list of alumni but could only contact them for advice and not for job opportunities. She asks, “Doesn?...
...LIBYA ACQUIRE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION? The program started at the very beginning of the revolution. The world was different then. It was not only Libya that was thinking along these lines. I know [former Romanian leader] Ceausescu used to boast that Romania was able to manufacture the nuclear bomb...
...identities were not revealed, are "a little above the rank of major or lieut. colonel," Torshin declared. If the men are guilty, their high rank would be more surprising than the fact that the rebels had penetrated law-enforcement agencies. Chechen guerrillas and their allies in the North Caucasus boast that they buy weapons from the Russian army and are assisted by local police. Meanwhile, bloody clashes, usually unreported in the media, occur daily in Chechnya. Last week, seven guerrillas were killed in a gunfight in Nalchik, capital of the once sleepy republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. A standoff...