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Perhaps it is our expectation of the best that makes us despair when anything else occurs. Perhaps the most valuable lesson Harvard imparts to its students is that life contains hills, valleys and a lot of ground in between and that our experience here is ultimately what we make of it. We can do 10 extracurricular activities or none, go out all weekend or stay in, write a thesis or not. It is this ability to decide for ourselves, the frightening control over our destiny and its consequences, that frames both the beauty of a Harvard education and its frustration...
...While Glazier became involved in the Phillips Brooks House Association immediately after graduation, traveling to Africa, he now works as a lawyer in California. He says trying to find a middle ground in 1969 left him with a distrust of any radicals...
Gerry said the Yard is a "great training ground," especially for undergraduates...
...more on highly mobile, highly modernized soldiers. Overall goal: a military that could fight "a limited war under high-tech conditions"--read Desert Storm in Asia. Out would be the old-style model of "military regions" and "group armies" that were designed to support massive human waves in punishing ground attacks. In would be a joint-forces model copied, in many respects, from what currently sits in that five-sided building on the Potomac. Insiders in Beijing say top Chinese brass tried to sell the idea to President Jiang Zemin last year, but he vetoed the plan as too radical...
...ground, the exodus continues. At a bus station in Pristina, about 100 Albanians, mostly old women, waited last Tuesday to board for the 60-mile drive to Skopje in Macedonia. An Albanian woman whispered that the trip cost 20 deutsche marks (almost $11) and took about four hours. With a Serbian army escort urging visitors to clear the area because "it is too dangerous," the woman was asked why she was leaving. The escort interjected, "Because of NATO bombs, right?" The Albanian woman glared. "No! The police...