Word: dares
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...While women at Harvard boast diversity, talent, ambition, leadership, great character, beauty, and creativity, of late, we lack a certain devotion to imagining the abundance of paths that we may pursue as women. The individual woman should dare to daydream beyond the popularly accepted ideals of what an educated, privileged woman may do with her life. Here on our beloved campus, we tend to gravitate towards two specific paradigms of a woman’s future: the “superwoman” who wants to achieve everything, and the accomplished woman who prefers to stay at home to raise...
...creature swallowed the toxin; now the thing is 30 ft. long, has 10 legs, looks like an angry Muppet and is itching for mischief. U.S. scientists have yet more dire news: the beast is the host for a deadly virus that could wipe out everyone in Seoul or-- dare we say it--the world...
...being caught committing a harmless “hack” can result in a lengthy prison sentence, few students will dare partake in such pranks in the future. This tradition deserves better than to be quashed by overzealous prosecutors and an unsympathetic judge. Even worse, by providing impetus for police at other colleges to crack down on traditions they have grown weary of, a conviction could have repercussions that extend beyond...
...faith, basing a bold claim on disputed, 2,000-year-old evidence (the film is not called The Lost Tomb of Jesus or Some Guy with the Same Name). Some of its advocates, defending a film they have not seen, show an ardor and will to believe that seem, dare I say it, religious...
...many wealthy Vietnamese officials took pains to disguise their net worth; they rode motorbikes to work and turned assets into gold bars that were hidden in their modest homes. "Society was not in favor of rich people," says Pham Chi Lan, an economist in Hanoi. "They did not dare expose their wealth." Today, BMWs and Mercedes are frequently seen on the streets of Hanoi, and there's a construction boom of luxury villas. The annual publication of a list of the country's richest people seems like just another capitalist milestone for a modernizing economy. After all, "in the world...