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...After a finely-balanced first half, Harvard had no response to an early second-half onslaught by the Foxes. Justifying its second seed status, Marist powered into the lead, maintaining a two or three goal advantage for the remainder of the game to consign the Crimson to defeat...
...Clinton years, for all their drama, were looking better and better. Yet there was always the worry about whether Bill would be able to stay within the constrained, derivative role of the candidate's spouse. The biggest fear was that he would shine too bright, burn too hot, consign the candidate to his shadow...
...days on the road with John Edwards in some of the poorest places in America, it's not only the depth of human need that hits you, but the layered and interlocking complexity of it - the way a complete lack of health care, for instance, can all by itself consign someone to ignorance and joblessness. But you're also struck by how so many of the people who have been dealt these difficult hands manage to play them with grace and fortitude. That may sound trite to some ears, but it probably wouldn't to anyone who has spent time...
...does retain the advantages of coherence and practicality. With many options for fulfilling these basic requirements, flexibility for which students plead can be achieved. To the Faculty, we propose an armistice in these academic skirmishes: no bruised egos, no inflexible or convoluted Core-like requirements. Let us consign the Curricular Review’s hopeful, yet ultimately unworkable innovations to the dustbin of failed projects and impractical dreams. Vote down the current General Education proposal and instead institute a broad and flexible distribution requirement...
...declaration in his cover letter, “Impossible is just someone’s opinion.” How ironic that this gung-ho attitude, even if expressed with slightly more modesty in the typical Harvard student, is used as a rallying cry by those who would consign themselves to such a dreary desk...