Word: gain
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Harvard indoor track used last Saturday's Harvard Invitational to stoke its competitive fires and gain confidence in preparation for this weekend's Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet at Yale...
...understood and fully appreciated by the mass audiences who frequent Hollywood blockbusters. After all, we can read about history and literature, but learning to appreciate the arts may require something more than just reading, perhaps a special insight. And because Harvard does give us the opportunity to gain that insight, I felt guilty not taking advantage...
...wrongful-death civil trial of O.J. Simpson sputtered toward conclusion last week in Santa Monica, California, a key issue that hung over the courtroom was money. With Simpson's camp openly proclaiming he is out of cash, many observers were left wondering what the plaintiffs stood to gain...
...associates, of course, don't see the humor in Connerly's misappropriation of King's vision. In fact, his namesake, Martin Luther King III, is starting his own organization to fight Connerly every step of the way. This is part of the King family's long-running struggle to gain financial control over his writings and speeches (which includes a recent multimillion-dollar pact with Time Warner, this magazine's owner). But the real issue here is not money but whether people who oppose nearly everything King stood for have the right to assert that his corpse is marching...
Dear Editors - As I read yesterday's front-page article about the "voluntarily retirement" of Joe Hickey, I could only wonder how long it will take the higher-ups in the Harvard corporation to understand how much of the satisfaction we gain from our undergraduate experiences is determined by our daily interactions with and ability to trust in our caring and dedicated House employees. Every one knows that Harvard is a business, and a successful one at that, but its essential vitality lies in a sense of community that the bullying of long-time, much-loved staff members like Hickey...