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...race climaxed a year of hurt, bitterness and self-examination for both runners. Immediately after their Los Angeles mishap, Budd had approached Decker, her childhood idol, to apologize, but the frustrated U.S. star dismissed her with a curt "Don't bother." For Budd, the waiflike wonder whose shoeless style and record-smashing times had drawn worldwide attention in the months before the Summer Games, the accident was a traumatic blow to an already turbulent career. She had come under fire for obtaining last-minute British citizenship in order to race in the Olympics and evade the antiapartheid ban on South...
Some students simply don’t bother to look for one, instead dutifully completing their Core and concentration requirements in the most painless way possible. But for those of us who actively search for the courses that will change the way we think about ourselves and the world, the essential question looms—in only eight semesters, how do you construct a liberal arts education with just a course catalog, a CUE Guide and a vague notion of what you need to know...
...those boys know that I don’t think their club is awesome. In fact, I think it’s silly (as well as potentially insidious). But I never get up the guts. I don’t want to be mean, and why should I even bother...
Then again, why even bother considering what Harvard would be without Welch? After all, who wouldn’t want to latch on to a program on the verge of a return to national prominence...
...Card Incident, as the Canter-and-Siegel affair came to be known, , brought to the surface issues that had been lurking largely unexamined beneath the Net's explosive growth. It was not designed for doing commerce, and it does not gracefully accommodate new arrivals -- especially those who don't bother to learn its strange language or customs or, worse still, openly defy them...