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Fittingly, in the end, the two competitors each came up with five unique words, all of three or four letters. The final score was 5 to 5, and unfortunately, no bragging rights were awarded. “[The Boggle match] was much like the Cuban Missile Crisis??except without the missiles, danger of global annihilation or Castro, and it happened in Cambridge,” says Aguilar. However, both presidents can report back to their clubs that they demonstrated some board game entrepreneurship, if not a downright willingness to cheat, in their quest for Boggle glory...
...health care, the candidates identified what Clark called a “crisis?? in a country with 41 million uninsured, but presented divergent plans for shoring up the nation’s health care system, ranging from Gephardt’s $228-billion-a-year program to fund employer-based insurance to more limited and less costly coverage proposals. They also tackled the issue of soaring prescription drug costs, with Graham, Lieberman and Kucinich backing drug reimportation plans and Sharpton and Dean warning congressional Democrats not to settle for the current compromise plan under consideration in Congress...
These survey results are ugly. They express the chasm between people and organizations. But the corporate response has been typical of institutions in crisis??they tend to produce the same old behaviors, only with more ferocity. Companies cut costs and lay people off and make consumers...
...blackout also gave people a way to help each other in a time of only mild crisis??to ease an instance of hardship without heartache. In New York, as buses packed full of people and perspiration came to a stand-still in traffic, a man from a bakery stood along the road and offered drivers free bread through their windows. If people had fridges full of meat, they threw it on a grill and shared it with their neighbors. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked his constituents to give rides to others if they had extra space...
Jeremy B. Reff: In some ways I’m almost hesitant to ever use the word crisis talking about Harvard. I think “crisis?? automatically puts us in a frame of mind which doesn’t utilize the flexibility and talents of the undergraduates here. I do think there is legitimately an incredible problem that is only going to be mititgated by a long-term, concerted effort; so I absolutely applaud what Rob said, because I think that only by working together in the arts community and having a vision for the allocation...