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...physical, it finds itself in the midst of an existential crisis. Beyond the old arguments that revolve around two vague words—“space” and “resources,” whatever those mean—nobody seems quite certain of what function this shiny new facility is supposed to serve. Perhaps it is to draw attention to the oppression that the female portion of Harvard’s student body must face every day. But then again, we’re hard-pressed to think of any hardship facing women on this campus...
...heads are often advised to take a deep breath, but a recent Harvard study suggests that they might not have the lung capacity to do it. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found that high levels of hostility may lead to pulmonary function deterioration. The study examined data gathered by the Veterans Administration Normative Aging Study on 670 men aged 45 to 86 who were assessed on the Cook-Medley Hostility Scale in 1986 and then subjected to follow-up pulmonary function examinations obtained over the course of eight years. Researchers found that...
...houses?Of course, this touches on the other strength of the tailgate—as a social event.For students from both universities, the tailgate is about visiting with friends on both sides of the rivalry, and, if there’s time, taking in The Game. This function is doubly critical at institutions like Harvard, where students are not necessarily there for the football as much as the fraternizing.Granted, there’s no need for the 50 hospitalizations that occurred in 2004, and the college is right to try to find solutions to that problem. But dispersing student drinking...
...Laden. Clinton eventually said no, but not before he leveled two charges at the Bush White House - one legit, one not. First, he said the Bush team demoted his counterterror czar Richard Clarke. That's technically right, but even the Kean-Hamilton commission noted Clarke continued to function at the same level of authority inside the White House as before. (Many Democrats just refuse to believe this...
...Credits went where they belonged: "New banks immediately accomplished their basic function - that of extending credits to encourage budding businesses," says Ulf Wokurka, a former Deutsche Bank director and now CFO of Samruk, Kazakhstan's holding company, which runs such giants as KazTelecom and oil and natural gas firm KazMunaiGaz...