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Another generation like the last is currently being bred at Harvard and America’s other elite institutions. Despite Kosman’s wistful warning, perhaps it would be more fitting to cite George Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat...

Author: By Jack Mclean, | Title: Privileged Should Heed Kosman's Message | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

...classic from the Reagan era, the Bush Administration may leave a rich legacy of redefining terms for regulatory purposes. Perhaps you thought a wild fish is one hatched in the wild. You would be mistaken, according to Bush's environmental stewards. Under a new plan, the distinction between farm-bred salmon, which are later released into rivers and streams, and their cousins hatched in the wild will be removed. That will instantly raise the overall tally of salmon--and make it more probable that the government will eliminate or downgrade protections for 15 salmon species now sheltered under the Endangered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Salmon Are Wild, And Other Word Games | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

...providing a positive or elucidating character, rather than demonstrating her versatility. “If I can relate to it, and I’m excited for other young people to see it because it’s breaking down one of the bullshit Hollywood stereotypes that are just bred and fed to us, then that’s awesome,” she says. “Sign me up, and I’m there...

Author: By Lucy F.V. Lindsey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Leland Brings Murder and Smiles | 4/9/2004 | See Source »

...should be grateful for the British empire. Not only am I, as the child of former British colonials, bred to like Ovaltine and black currant jelly at teatime, without a doubt I owe the British empire my very life. Without the existence of the imperial outpost of Hong Kong, my grandparents would not have found safe haven from war-torn China, my parents would not have gone to America, and I would never be here at Harvard...

Author: By Denise Ho, DENISE HO | Title: Can "The Goods" Justify Empire? | 4/8/2004 | See Source »

...those born outside the Red Sox Nation, myself included, the hopes and dreams resting on each season appear peculiarly magnified by its residents. I was born and bred an Astros fan and National Leaguer, so the willing subjugation to the excruciating pain of being a Sox fan was a foreign concept when I arrived at Harvard four years...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LOVE IT OR LEEVE IT: Passion, Pain in Red Sox Nation | 4/7/2004 | See Source »

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