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Some stickler traditionalists might argue that it is rather difficult to get much of a sense of a culture without learning its language. They might even contend that learning, say, French at Harvard provides a better introduction to the culture of France than barhopping through Paris with a homogenous group of privileged Americans and taking guided tours—in English—of the Louvre every now and then...
...authors contend that reduced drug prices would not hinder the development of new drugs...
...turns out, Grace Street has never had to contend with low numbers—Harvard has given it a healthy endorsement...
...Green has a pair of high-scoring forwards that the Crimson will have to contend with this year, a pairing that was not fully established at the season’s beginning...
Once settled in, Coronado also had to contend with the inevitable class differences. “People here are not pretentious, but some of them approach money differently,” he says. “One of my roommates freshman year bought the whole room tickets to a New York Knicks game. We all assumed that we would take the bus down, but then he said that it would be $300 to get there.” The roommate had assumed the whole group would...