Word: frantic
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Under the present system, Houses are expected to begin integrating new members in the middle of spring midterms, after seven months of community-starved first-years’ attaching themselves to their entryways and extracurricular activities in a frantic search for a niche at often-impersonal, always-intimidating Harvard. It is simply unreasonable to expect freshmen, who in many cases feel satisfied with their Harvard experiences come March, to buy into the community of a randomly assigned House. This problem is exacerbated by the presence of blocking groups; since freshmen usually block with friends from one of their improvised first...
During a month of frantic courthouse wrangling about whether California inmate Michael Morales should be executed by lethal injection, his lawyers contended that the state's execution procedures amounted to cruel and unusual punishment because scientific evidence suggests the intravenously administered three-drug mixture doesn't alleviate severe pain as it stops the heart. But it wasn't their argument, or a decision from presiding U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel that temporarily halted Morales' execution. Rather, it was the ethical stance by doctors, who refused to serve as monitors prepared to intervene in case of complications, because of their Hippocratic...
...minutes. During one three-minute stretch, the Crimson turned the ball over seven times. “They put a lot of pressure on us,” said senior co-captain Maureen McCaffery. “In the first 15 minutes it was making us a little frantic.” Nonetheless, the Crimson never let the game get out of reach. Trailing 18-10 with 5:05 to play in the first half, Harvard went on a 10-2 run to tie the game at 20 on a layup from freshman Emily Tay. From that point...
...foot and with the highest vertical on the court, juked Harvard guard Laura Robinson on an inbounds play and sprinted upcourt just as her teammate threw a perfect baseball pass down the left sideline. A few dribbles later, Hayes put that vertical leap to good use, jumping over three frantic, out-of-place Harvard defenders and burying a 20-footer with 0.4 seconds remaining. “Yeah, that’s Sarah Hayes,” said Harvard head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith. “I thought that was too easy a shot for her. We should have...
...After a frantic five minutes in which Dartmouth shaved a nine-point halftime deficit to just three, Big Green freshman Alex Barnett made a rookie mistake...