Word: commonality
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...sheer will and motivation of students. The intense energy and self-motivation is incredible. And whether or not resume-building plays a part at the start, ultimately most students accept huge amounts of responsibility, sometimes at a cost that no line on a resume alone could repay. Although the common sentiment expressed is that students should be focusing all their energy and strength on academics, I think that it is misguided. Perhaps in the days of yesteryear, when students at Harvard were small in number and elite in status, they could ignore the world outside and concentrate on great books...
Although the Core is supposed to each us approaches to knowledge (an admirable goal, no doubt), we achieve the approaches to knowledge not in the Core, but in our extracurricular activities. We learn how to maintain an organization, coordinate with people, work in a team towards a common goal, balance the other parts of our lives with these responsibilities as well as countless other lessons we could never learn passively in Core classes--or any others...
...closely resembling Nichols bought 40 bags of ammonium nitrate, weighing 50 lbs. apiece. On Oct. 18, Schlender has said, he bought another 50 lbs. During a pretrial hearing in February, Schlender testified that the man "said he was a wheat farmer. It was an unusual transaction. It wasn't common for someone to buy a ton of ammonium nitrate." When FBI agents searched Nichols' home in Herington, they found a receipt for one of the purchases; it had McVeigh's fingerprint...
JOSHUA H. SIMON '00, a Crimson editor, was sitting in his Straus common room on Monday evening when the phone rang. Simon answered the phone and soon realized that the voice sounded familiar. The woman on the other end of the line was none other than the famous vocalist Celine Dion. She was calling from a Passover seder his parents had been attending in Florida. She just wanted...
...strain under the weight of its own ambitious chronological framework. An intricate gold dragon stands prominently along the main path with scant explanation of its significance or social use, while a collection of vases and other cultural artifacts, to judge from the sparing wall labels, seemingly have nothing in common other than their status as decorative objects...