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These stats are comforting until you realize that Harvard is still only at or below the mean. This perhaps indicates that Harvard is indeed a barren wasteland of sexual destitution. Why? “Because you all are so dang hard to get a hold of!” quipped my MIT friend. It’s true. He and I spent two weeks trying to find a time simply to get coffee. Every cancellation and re-schedule had been my fault, because of lab, section, rehearsal, or work. This type of social avoidance and excuse making is distressingly common...
...second set also showed promise. Sophomore middle blocker Nikola Ivica brought the Crimson back from behind with a seven-point service run, but the team ultimately could not hold on for the win, and it dropped...
George Washington wanted the same thing, but history went in another direction. It gave us Democrats and Republicans, and we're likely to be living with them for a long time to come. What the Tea Party movement tells us, though, is that the hold those traditional parties have over politics is never as tight as their leaders would like to believe, and that in times of trouble - times like these both R's and D's are well advised to be afraid. Very afraid...
...Senator Christopher Dodd, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, recently broke off negotiations with Senator Richard Shelby, the ranking Republican, a politician so committed to bipartisanship that he placed a hold on all Obama Administration appointees to extract some pork for Alabama. Now Dodd is trying to negotiate with Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, who said in a recent interview that he truly believes an agreement is possible. But in that same interview, Corker described some modest Administration proposals - like giving consumers the option of a simple "plain-vanilla" mortgage - as "way, way out in left field...
...opposition's vaunted strengths - a horizontal, decentralized organization that kept the movement alive despite widespread arrests - proved to have its limits. With different leaders calling for demonstrations at different locations, there was no one spot where a massive display of opposition force could hold its own against the government. The government jamming of mobile phones, texting and Internet services prevented flash-mob-style impromptu organizing from taking place...