Word: drives
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...face it, the high school caste system is not a pretty one. If you aren't amazingly thin, don't drive a convertible, don't wear the latest styles, refuse to cheerlead or don't put out, then you're just not popular. Join a traditionally geeky activity like drama club, marching band or (heaven forbid) math team, and you can also kiss any hopes of being popular goodbye. The definition of popularity has narrow parameters, ones which are difficult to attain but ever so easy to lose...
...line up to make all sorts of exchanges nowadays--financial, even personal. At the ATM. At the drive-through. We line up in voice-mail and e-mail inboxes, waiting for our turn to be answered. And our frustration with this must be unhealthy, as we clench our fists when the driver in front of us waits five seconds before moving at a newly green traffic light, or as we wring our hands when someone (heaven forbid) has checked their inbox but has not responded to our messages. We have become so paranoid about physical space that we screen calls...
Finally, the governor seems to forget that teachers are not the enemy but the answer. When trained properly, they are indispensable to the education of Massachusetts' children. Testing prospective teachers and now, possibly, current teachers with unfair exams will only drive away the best and the brightest from the profession. If Cellucci's "new way" consists of unreasonable secrecy and a constant barrage of uninformed insults, maybe we need a new dean/governor, one who remembers the not-all-that ironic motto of Faber: "Knowledge is Good." Susannah B. Tobin '00 is a classics concentrator in Lowell House. Her column appears...
Ignoring this problem would effectively drive out those citizens who help give Cambridge its distinct and diverse character. The loss of those who primarily benefit from low-cost units--the elderly and disabled, single working mothers, retired long-time residents and other low-income residents--would be a critical blow to Cambridge's vibrant political activism...
...published an article detailing the Klan's intentions to increase its membership in the coming weeks. It stated, "The Harvard Ku Klux Klan has only been waiting for the favorable moment to show its strength. And now there are indications that the next few weeks will see the largest drive for Klan membership...