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...doom the twin monoliths of the Science Center and (soon) the Humanities Center to eying one another balefully across Harvard Yard forever. Students and professors alike must try to promote a new academic desegregation. If, every once in a while, each English major did a few integrals and each CS major wrote a haiku or two, the result would not just be a proliferation of bad haikus and incorrect integrals, but also a more interesting intellectual environment...
Genes and social forces may conspire to turn people into addicts but do not doom them to remain so. Consider the case of Rafael Rios, who grew up in a housing project in New York City's drug-infested South Bronx. For 18 years, until he turned 31, Rios, whose father died of alcoholism, led a double life. He graduated from Harvard Law School and joined a prestigious Chicago law firm. Yet all the while he was secretly visiting a shooting gallery once a day. His favored concoction: heroin spiked with a jolt of cocaine. Ten years ago, Rios succeeded...
...closing decade than the relatively placid late '90s--just about any decade of this cataclysmic century would have. And maybe that's why the millennium already feels like a dud. Compared with where we've been these past hundred years, the new age seems to promise normality more than doom or utopia. Which isn't a bad thing--it just doesn't offer much prospect for funny cartoons, or riveting drama, or even, alas, spiffy office chairs...
With the Crimson beset by a myriad of injuries, including top scorer Mike Ferrucci's shoulder, falling into a hole like that to a talented opponent spelled doom...
Again in the eleventh, Harvard's sloppy defense seemed to doom them, as the Crimson allowed Maine junior secondbaseman Keith Croteau to reach third with two outs on an error, a stolen base, and a wild pitch. Croteau was then singled home on an infield hit that deflected off the pitcher's mound. Maine was on top again...