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...will not confine myself to the comfort of speaking only to those who agree with me," he said after winning the Virginia, Maryland and District of Columbia primaries. "I will make my case to all the people." Nearly a week later, he was even more direct about his aims: "We'll be competing everywhere, including the state of California...
...Tillman] has revived our program and everyone’s behind him 100 percent,” tri-captain Brooks Scholl said. “We think he’s going to take Harvard to be a top five team eventually...he pushes us hard, past our comfort level, so I think he’s going to be really positive for Harvard.”With Tillman comes faceoff coach Anthony Kelly and defensive coach Kevin Warne.Both hope to jumpstart a squad that struggled with a young defense in 2007 and lost a top faceoff man to graduation...
...study in the February issue of “Psychological Science,” conducted in part by a Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 2007 graduate, revealed that lonely people can find comfort in forming connections with inanimate objects. FM decided to ask this researcher what object we should look to for companionship to help us better survive an isolating, depressing days (a.k.a. any day in Cambridge...
...things. But if it has to be strictly disconnected from human contact, at least things that resemble humans––a stuffed animal, a robot, anything that sort of is sort of human-like or moves, if you were lonely enough to imagine that it provides comfort or understanding...
...unwilling to speak on record to me about it.) In an official announcement that was circulated over various House lists, the Athletic Department declared that the policy had been implemented for “equality reasons,” adding that “whether it is for overall comfort or religious purposes we wanted to offer an opportunity for women to work out without the presence of men.” But to cite a concern for equality while denying it to half the undergraduate population is preposterous...