Word: eagerness
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...four out of seven Ivy games are home at Ohiri Field, the Crimson is particularly excited. While a tie game can break a title run, home field advantage can break a tie. Harvard is also eager to face Yale and Dartmouth after last year’s painful losses...
Having weathered a few years at Harvard, though, we can offer the obviously eager freshmen an important lesson: There are not that many friendly people at Harvard, and the fact that your facebook friends number close to 1,000 does not negate this. We would be lying if we upperclassmen denied feeling a twinge of envy towards freshmen, here not even a full week, boasting twice the number of "friends" as we have. But it's really not much of an accomplishment. The only time were invariably friendly at Harvard is on our resumes and our facebook profiles. The only...
...Water and electricity is supplied through Israel. The Israelis, however, are eager to show that, whatever the status of the legal disputes, the ball is now in the Palestinian Authority's court and President Mahmoud Abbas ought not to expect further serious peace talks until he clamps down on the terror groups in Gaza...
...wave of change that has swept Asia has affected nations eager to put their past behind them. In China's Nanjing, archaic buildings that housed "comfort women" will be dismantled to erect skyscrapers. Japan tried to whitewash its militaristic past by culling mention of the rape of Nanjing from history textbooks. Despite the Asian tendency to celebrate the new, many cities have resolved to preserve their traditions. We all need to salvage the best elements from our past before urbanization transforms historic and cultural sites beyond recognition. Victoria Ip Hong Kong...
...Eager to show Egyptians as well as Washington policymakers that Egypt is a practicing democracy, Mubarak joined the fray with all the trappings of a slick Western-style campaign. His trips were backed up by a campaign HQ in Cairo, staffed by media experts, pollsters, lawyers and college professors, including one with a Ph. D from an American university who once worked as a congressional aide on Capitol Hill. To fill out Mubarak's political rallies, the campaign bused in students wearing Mubarak T-shirts, caps and "Mubarak 2005" buttons - young men who as often as not were...