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...Currier senior, who was waiting at Boylston Gate for yesterday’s 4:45 p.m. shuttle back to the Quad with her arms full of boxes, was quickly becoming covered with snow...
...Britain, where, it seems, everything is different. For example, eye contact has different connotations. Here, it’s something to strive for in interviews and avoid on the subway; there, it means you’ve stolen some treasure. Witness two secret agent types stake out a palace gate as Nicholas Cage and his family emerge with a piece of wood. Cage makes eye contact with the agents. They make eye contact with him. And the chase is on. That’s where we discover that people in England mostly drive backwards, another interesting cultural difference...
Furthermore, the letter writers’ claim that political activism is gone from Harvard at all remains open to debate. While it may have been decades since riot squads passed under Boylston Gate, this fact connotes the transformation—not degradation—of undergraduates’ public spirit. The looming threat of the draft played an invaluable role as a catalyst for activism in the Vietnam era; the absence of conscription today makes political activism an entirely different enterprise. Moreover, the omnipresence of news and technology has lessened the necessity for the kind of public demonstration the people...
...stopped—the Crimson now stands undefeated at 9-0.At first it was no big deal. Harvard padded its record in the early going against the likes of ECAC creampuffs Quinnipiac and Brown and middle-of-the-road conference foes Princeton and Yale to come out of the gate 4-0. Good, yes. But also expected, and nothing to start shuffling around the top spots in the national rankings for.Then, starting on Nov. 23, everything changed. Beginning with its 5-0 win over then-No. 10 Clarkson that night, the Crimson beat three top 10 teams in a row, including...
...Hampshire has dropped by nearly half, to 14 points in the latest CNN/WMUR survey, conducted by the University of New Hampshire. More telling is what is happening on the ground: in the past three weeks, Clinton has nearly doubled the size of her late-out-of-the-gate field operation in Iowa, adding about 100 new people, though she still has not caught up with the forces that Obama has had in place pretty much since June. She is also intensifying her travel schedule in Iowa (she has visited only 39 counties to his 68, by the Obama campaign...