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...Bush, September was the cruelest month. A week after the Democratic Convention, Labor Day, the day everyone is supposed to actually sit up and pay attention to politics, Bush was caught on an open mike calling a New York Times reporter a "major-league asshole." The Governor then admitted that he hadn't explained his tax plan correctly, raising questions about whether he knew what was in it at all. Vanity Fair argued that the candidate was dyslexic, which some of his performances only seemed to confirm. He was running ads suggesting that Gore was scared to debate him, which...
Perhaps October is the cruelest month. With the happy reunions over and the summer a faded memory, the realities of Harvard hit again. Midterms, project proposals, that looming pile of laundry silently growing in the corner...
...Harvard baseball team, April has indeed proved to be the cruelest month, as spring showers have forced the postponement of five of the team's last seven games...
...Eliot '10 famously wrote, "April is the cruelest month...mixing memory and desire." Of course, when Eliot was a senior here, he could remember that the Red Sox had already won two World Championships and he had to wait only two years for the fulfillment of any desire for a third. We seniors appreciate better than most that this month and the next are truly cruel, as we can't quite let go our experience here at the College in order to act on our hopes and plans for the future, so going to Fenway Park on Opening Day Tuesday...
March is the cruelest month. The confluence of myriad midterms, sundry applications and neglected theses is bad enough. But for those whose basketball jones prevents sustained concentration on anything but March Madness, March can be, well, maddening...