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FRESH FROSHAh, prefrosh weekend. All those eager, excited eyes…breathless, blushed faces…pulsing, engorged loins....Yes, it’s nice to have an injection of vigorous youth jammed right into the blocked aorta of our faded ’n’ jaded student body. Like Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, Harvard Yard gasped back to life with a much-needed shot of red folders and romantic idealism...
...Dressed in a big black cowboy hat, he is standing in front of a patriotically painted helicopter, with the tagline "I am EADS." The company has also figured out how to play American-style politics: in contrast to Boeing, whose most vociferous political proponents are Democrats in Washington State eager to protect the company's Seattle-area jobs, EADS is building a base in the Republican-dominated South. Two weeks ago, it opened another plant in Alabama, a Republican state, and has hired a former top aide to Mississippi Republican Senator Trent Lott as an executive...
...favor of such a thing set a number of people’s minds at rest,” Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature Susan R. Suleiman said after the meeting. “I think people are really eager to get on with things rather than keep harping on the past...
...America, where, according to Citizens for a Sound Economy, a lawsuit is filed every ten seconds of every working hour. These lawsuits are a problem, and not simply because they give cynical Canadians (like me) fodder for making fun of American culture. By perpetuating a mindset that is over-eager to assign blame to others, frivolous lawsuits are exceedingly costly, and give Americans a great excuse not to take ownership of their own lives and fates...
...Republicans are so eager to change the storyline that House Speaker Dennis Hastert got a standing ovation when he announced, at a private meeting with House Republicans in the Capitol basement last week, that he was ready to sound a retreat on changes in House ethics rules that he engineered last December. Democrats on the House ethics committee, which is the only one where they hold as many seats as Republicans, had shut it down to protest a rule change that required the support of a majority of committee members before any investigation could proceed. They charged that...