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Rowing downstream into a slight cross-headwind, the Crimson decided to forego the sprint and conserve energy for Sunday's races, realizing the Compton Cup was safely in hand. The Crimson finished Saturday's race a solid length-and-a-half ahead of Princeton, with a hapless MIT trailing somewhere in Harvard's wake...
...nothing else, students should celebrate Earth Day by vowing to forego paper cups in the dining halls in favor of reusable glasses and mugs. Students should also do without plastic shopping bags and should use the recycling bins in their entryways to recycle newspapers, white paper, glass bottles and aluminum cans...
Since the 1930s, the chief instrument for building that community has been the house system. The administration believes that a debit-card system would encourage students to forego meals in their houses, thus weakening ties among house members and eroding the sense of community...
...cannot indefinitely survive on its rich inheritance of public facilities from past generations. In order to remain competitive, we must invest in roads, schools, airports, public transportation, basic research, worker retraining and other expensive necessities that will pay off down the road. In other words, we need to forego some consumption today in order to ensure the productivity and prosperity of future generations. As the most gluttonous consumer in the economy, the Pentagon must bear the brunt of the cost...
From the way they talk, it would seem the law students really do identify with these TV attorneys--a couple of years ago, the Law School Forum even invited cast members to speak at the school. (Unfortunately for the students, they were forced to forego their plans when the actors and actresses wanted first-class tickets to Boston...