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...shakes the notion that everyone at Harvard can handle the stress the College dishes out. Admitting and accepting defeat, even failure, is a brave act, especially at success-saturated Harvard. “To some degree, taking time off is as courageous as staying here. Staying here is the default,” says Kargere...
...arrested for public masturbation in Cambridge this past April has found himself in trouble with the law yet again—this time, on two charges of rape. Kevin Bennett, 33, was arrested on Oct. 9 near Augusta, Maine with a default warrant from his previous arrest on the Harvard College campus. He has pled not guilty to the charges in Cambridge District Court, and is being held on a $2 million bail. Bennett was arrested in front of the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) in April after a dramatic chase that started with him masturbating in a window visible...
...those of the 1950s, today’s women are not forced to play any traditional female roles. Because of this, some might argue that the gender revolution has pushed through a full cycle: young women like Anne are now assuming the roles their grandmothers once filled, not by default but as a deliberate choice...
...visual items you’re presenting, you can try to trick the kids into using those kind of cues, such as the area of red stuff,” Barth said. “But we didn’t succeed in tricking them. They by default use the number of things...
Much the same could be said about our government and its approach to protecting the nation. The default mode of the current administration has been to exert only as much effort as is needed to uphold its fragile façade of order and competence. This philosophy might have worked in a world devoid of unpredictable external forces, but it certainly does not work in the world of reality. In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks four years ago and Hurricane Katrina today, public grief and outrage catalyzed the reevaluation and eventual reform of malnourished, incompetent national systems...