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...could have snowshoed to the finish. But on the second- to-last jump she hot-dogged it, clutching the rail of her board in mid-air, and botched the landing so badly she fell and got silver instead. Going for show is totally in keeping with the snowboard m.o., except that in cross, style points are less useful than euros in Cleveland. It's a race. At first Jacobellis insisted she made the grab for balance, but later in the day, she started to fess up. "I wanted to share with the crowd my enthusiasm," she says. "I messed...
Specifically, we hope, except in rare circumstances, that the UC avoids polling directly on legislative items. Doing so would allow the UC to use referenda as a crutch when it feels like avoiding particularly divisive or hairy issues. Moreover, such polling might endow a false sense of legitimacy for the UC to take stands on political issues like foreign policy, domestic policy, or janitor wages—a distraction we have repeatedly lambasted the UC in the past...
...rest of their academic careers. These introductory offerings are often watered-down experiences for which one really doesn’t need to come to Harvard. Furthermore, students trapped in introductory lectures are left to choose a concentration without full knowledge of what awaits them in regular departmental classes. Except for the rather unique freshman seminars, there is not a lot about the average Harvard freshman year that makes it Harvard-specific: much of the learning could have taken place in an environment far less particular (and particularly less expensive). The difficulty of making good first-year academic decisions...
...comfort to Harvard students that most other colleges in the Boston and Cambridge area have similar snow policies. Officials at Northeastern, Boston University, and Boston College said that closure due to snow is very rare. However, unlike Harvard—which appears to have been devoid of snow days except for the three days in 1978—officials at these schools said their universities on average close down due to inclement weather anywhere from once a year to once every couple years. Some of Harvard’s biggest rival schools also shut down more frequently. Princeton just last...
Monday's news that Iran has postponed Moscow talks, scheduled to start Thursday, on having its uranium enriched in Russia, and has instead resumed its own enrichment activities, was hardly stunning - except, perhaps, to Russian President Vladimir Putin...