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Unfortunately, the Crimson's ego has suffered three times in the past five years. Since 1966, the Indians have won only three League games, one by forfeit, and Harvard has had the honor of being the victim each time. Two years ago the Crimson traveled to Hanover hoping for a share of the League title and returned with mud on its face...
...value, and the personal skills you pick up last forever," he says. To Gary L. Stone, also a 2L and the new Assistant Vice President of Operations, HVD is "a very together organization." When asked what he enjoyed most about his work for HVD, Stone commented, "There's an ego-satisfaction in defending the people-a general feeling of doing something worthwhile...
...year-old thought he was a Ku Klux Klan potentate in charge of the Mafia, and a 17-year-old decided he was the Messiah returned to earth. In each case, Kolansky and Moore theorize, pot disrupted the patient's view of reality so that the ego had to "develop a delusional system to restore a new form of reality." When they gave up pot, the psychotic youngsters were able to give up their delusions as well, but lapses in memory and concentration remained...
Significantly, however, Grinspoon himself opposes the use of marijuana by youngsters. His reason: Many ordinarily harmless drugs can set off a psychosis in people with shaky egos-and in adolescence, a shaky ego is a normal condition of life...
...like to know why the hell they haven't been here sooner," Scoggins said. "I've waited eight months for this. Tell them to satisfy a balding hippie's ego...