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...goes the familiar whine of Harvard seniors when talking to underclassmen. This comment strikes me as bizarre because most of the time the age gap between the senior and underclassman is less than three years. There are only two places such an age gap is significant: college and a nursing home. Before and after our Harvard careers we have and will probably associate with people from ages seven to seventy who are at very different stages of life from us. Therefore, the lack of such age diversity at college is not just bizarre, but also potentially dangerous. It causes...
...Yawning Gap Anger on the streets is directed not only at current Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, an Oxford-educated economist, but also at an entire political and military establishment that many in the lower classes believe lives only to enrich itself at the common man's expense. For the red shirts it doesn't matter that Abhisit appears to be a rare clean politician in a country where politics and corruption seem as closely linked as mango and sticky rice. Nor is it significant to them that during his 15 months in power the Prime Minister has unveiled a raft...
...exiles, and in February it stopped handing out visas to most European citizens. When I visited Libya's biggest gas-export facility in February, the Italian manager was stuck in Rome, with no visa to return to work. To all this, Saif sighs, clearly exasperated. "There is a big gap between ... our mentality and the Western mentality," he says. "I think we are not ready to deal in the right way with the Western world...
After Princeton narrowed the gap with a run in the bottom of the 4th, freshman Kyle Larrow’s RBI double in the 6th extended the lead...
Freshmen Jennifer VanderMeulen and Danielle Tetreault helped narrow the gap to three with less than three minutes to go, netting a combined seven second-half tallies. But the Bulldogs kept the Crimson off the scoreboard over the final 2:51, preserving...