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...Harvard is a bunch of communists and a bunch of atheists—a bunch of rich snobs. You would flunk out, and you would lose your soul,” he remembers his teachers telling...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Classy Affair | 11/13/2003 | See Source »

...fought to a standstill." When people say "Huah!" at West Point, they're not doing an Al Pacino impression. "Huah!" is the universal adjective for all things gung-ho and military: a huah cadet would never be caught missing a shave or parking sloppily. A huah cadet would never flunk the regular fitness tests, which include 42 push-ups in two minutes and a two-mile run in 15:54. Huah cadets don't wear glasses, they wear TEDs, tactical eye devices. The irony of it all, and they're fully aware of it, is that the students at West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life On The Long Gray Line | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...That’s why I love him,’ Joy said. The truth was,” Allen chuckles, “I had no idea what was going on. I seemed the ideal of non-attachment because I was going to flunk the course...

Author: By Alex L. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Man With the Answers: Allen GrapplesWith Life’s Questions | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

...might flunk out of school,” she added...

Author: By David B. Rochelson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Eliot Senior Named ‘Miss Rhode Island’ | 4/29/2003 | See Source »

...lest anyone conclude that wolves are unusually stupid, Hare notes that chimpanzees, which perform well in many other cognition experiments, also flunk the food-canister test. Hare’s conclusion? Dogs’ unique ability to read human social cues is a product of domestication...

Author: By M.c. Wilson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Secret Life of Dogs: Unleashed | 3/6/2003 | See Source »

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