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...room with the same focus and determination as if we were preparing for a hurricane. We come just short of boarding up our windows. You know what I’m talking about. You want to make sure your room meets your parents’ lofty expectations, devoid of anything that might reveal your “alternative” lifestyle. While you may have worked harder on it than, say, your senior thesis, you reluctantly dismantle your life-size replica of the John Harvard statue made entirely of empty Bud Light cans. Relieving it of its duty...

Author: By Eric A. Kester | Title: The Visit | 10/13/2006 | See Source »

...avoid the emergency room or, for that matter, the hospital. It may seem counterintuitive, but many physicians who make house calls an important part of their practice are far more technologically equipped than most of their colleagues who confine their practice to the office. It makes the office seem devoid of information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Doctor in the House | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

Hook-up: 1. Torrid affair of a sexual nature, often lasting less than a single night and devoid of any emotion or commitment. Often the choice of students over the alternative “date” or “relationship...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Harvardisms: Learning The Lingo | 8/29/2006 | See Source »

...realize that they are witnessing an exhibition of individual achievement that is truly Olympian. The judges agree. Their verdict on Nadia Comaneci, 14, of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Romania: she is perfect. Pripyat, Soviet Union June 23, 1986 For those who have seen it, Pripyat is a place of silence, devoid of life. The only movement that suggests human habitation is the flutter of laundry on clotheslines. But the laundry has been there, day and night, since April 27. On that day, most of the town's 40,000 citizens hastily collected a few belongings and piled into buses that evacuated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Time For Change | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

...that he did not have data on Jewish students at Harvard.BEYOND TEST SCORESBlack student groups from the College and graduate schools wrote in a letter to The Crimson in October 1980 that the report relied more on numbers than on truth. “Since when do raw scores devoid of personal context gauge admission?” the groups wrote. The Crimson received criticism from both minority student groups and the administration for sensationalizing the report. “I would urge members of the Harvard community not to place any weight on isolated quotations from an unofficial draft...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Report Questioned Diversity And Affirmative Action | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

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