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...century, the ’94 Expos ranked just 41st, placing behind several curling teams. If the Expos do ultimately join baseball’s historical wasteland of anonymity, then the strike-shortened 1994 season may be the appropriate symbol of the team’s history: an endeavor that was never allowed to grow to its full potential, done in by avarice and myopic horizons...

Author: By David R. De remer, | Title: POSTCARD FROM MONTREAL: Boston Invaders Turn Heads | 7/27/2001 | See Source »

...doing that really bothers me. That’s to be expected at the beginning of any research project. My larger uncertainty about this project stems from the sneaking suspicion that my time in Jerusalem has produced in me about the limits of any academic endeavor like this...

Author: By P. PATTY Li, | Title: POSTCARD FROM JERUSALEM: Studying the Middle East | 7/20/2001 | See Source »

...author of Examining Your Doctor: A Patient's Guide to Avoiding Harmful Medical Care. "But a lot of gym yoga is about who can do this really difficult contortion to display to everyone else in the class." The workout warriors have to realize that yoga is more an Athenian endeavor than a Spartan one. You don't win by punishing your body. You convince it, seduce it, talk it down from the ledge of ambition and anxiety. Yoga is not a struggle but a surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Yoga | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...With support systems like this in place, home schooling certainly wasn't the lonely endeavor I'd imagined it - long days chained to the kitchen table with a couple of library books and low-tech science experiments of my own making. And after an exhausting day in Denver, I'm at least willing to admit home schooling to the realm of the possible - even the doable - provided I can ditch the lesson about the sheep's brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The ABC's of Home Schooling | 6/29/2001 | See Source »

...helping fancy Harvard kids, are an endangered species around here—not because it’s so hard to find such people, but because the University now “outsources,” viewing labor as an inorganic commodity rather than a human enterprise and an endeavor of communities. This is in order to keep costs down, which is an admirable and even a necessary priority at this sprawlingly expensive place...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Happy New Year | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

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