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...suspect that only some of the fears of the senior class revolve around not having your food cooked for you in the dining hall or learning to wake up at 7 a.m. For many Harvard graduates, we will stop being students, a primary identity, one we have clung to since we were four...
...educations, and above all, futures. Yet I sense a kind of spiritual aching for something more, some transcendence that people currently attempt to stuff with work, achievement, or wealth. Fitzgerald knew of these pangs firsthand. To the end of his days he flirted searchingly with his Catholic faith and clung to a cloying obsession with the way others perceived...
...quick start, the two boats maintained a stalemate until the midway point. Harvard’s surge at the 1000 brought both crews even, and the Crimson fought to gain a three-seat lead in the third 500 meters. As both boats entered the final 500, Harvard clung to its three-seat lead and seemed primed to make a late surge and secure its 25th straight win. But Brown, urged forward by a partisan crowd that waited screaming at the finish line, did what no other crew has done in four seasons: out-sprint Harvard in the final 20 strokes...
...idea of having an even number of justices on the Supreme Court is not a new one. In fact, the Judiciary Act of 1789, which first set up the federal judicial system, established a six-person Supreme Court. And in its early years, the Republic clung to the even-number status quo. The lame-duck Federalist majority in Congress voted in early 1801 to reduce the court to five members. But when the Jeffersonians gained control, they repealed the Federalists’ move and kept the court at its six-man size...
...West Bank. Those dramatic moves, however, were never conceived of as steps toward a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians. On the contrary, they were drawn up as an alternative to a negotiated settlement, an attempt to resolve the problem of the occupation on Israel's own terms. Abbas has clung to the increasingly fanciful idea that by calming the situation in the West Bank and Gaza, he could persuade the U.S. to nudge Sharon-or better still, a new Labor government-to pick up final-status talks where his predecessor Ehud Barak had left off. But Sharon's unilateral moves...