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Part of the reason for this mental preparedness is the encouraging Crimson performance last week in the ICAA's. Harvard barely managed to place a distant third, but the Crimson harriers recovered well after a slow start and the five sophomores gained valuable big-race experience...
This is the third straight year that Harvard has been among the top three in the IC4A's. In 1968, the Crimson was also third, and last year it finished a distant second...
Captain Tom Spengler was once again his team's top finisher, but he had to settle for a distant second behind Cornell's Jon Anderson, who was only four seconds off the course record...
...long curved staircase). Every time something important is about to occur, the full chorus assembles on stage, if only to sing eight bars of "Peach on the Beach." You're overwhelmed by the force of convention which runs through the show, structuring it, and because those conventions are so distant and bizarre, it's difficult not to like them...
...Panthers in the U.S. all share the spirit of anarchism: its fascination with violence, its chaotic organization, its insistence on absolute freedom (an illusion that in the past has invariably led to tyranny). Often their cult is pseudo-religious, even monastic: it is consecrated to a dead or distant deity like Che Guevara or Mao Tse-tung; its communicants gather in intimate, almost confessional cells: and they observe a ritual secrecy that eventually cuts them off from society altogether. Their ideologies differ, but in general their rationale is that "the system" is incapable of real change and that the official...