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...disturbed that the March 15 staff editorial, “MAC Renovations, Finally,” felt a need to obscure its overall correct point by playing up the supposed “disparity” between varsity and recreational facilities. That the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) is unacceptably crowded and poor is a fact we can all agree upon, but to wax eloquent about varsity athletes who have “spacious and uncrowded” weightrooms and “row upon row of beautiful unused” treadmills is unfair, implicit athlete-bashing and a testament...
...last thing on Tilly's mind when he and his colleagues began their research. They were interested in prolonging fertility, but as experts in cell death, or apoptosis, they were looking for ways to keep the limited supply of eggs limping along longer. "We assumed the dogma was correct," he says. Indeed, they found that the egg cells in adult-mouse ovaries are constantly dying off--but at a remarkable rate of up to 1,200 a day, or about a third of the total. "By the existing dogma," says Tilly, "they shouldn't last more than a few weeks...
...other dancers and I were preparing to iron our costumes, so we’d look our absolute best on stage the next morning’s performance. Having very little ironing experience, I wasn’t aware of the importance of setting the iron to the correct heat option, depending on the fabric. Within half a second of touching the iron to the shirt, I had singed a three-inch whole into it—the pink patch of fabric actually melted onto the iron! We had no way to replace the shirt before our performance the next...
...talking about Crimson junior center Tom Cavanagh—he was 33 years too early for that, breaking down Harvard’s 1971 roster—but he might as well have been. He even had the name and number (9) on the back of the Crimson sweater correct...
...anything I've suggested with respect to Iraq was nuanced. It was clear. It was precise. It was, in fact, prescient. It was ahead of the curve about what the difficulties were. And that is precisely what a President is supposed to be. I think I was right, 100% correct, about how you should have done Iraq...