Word: holding
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Thanks to the Harvard men's soccer team's 4-2 overtime victory over Princeton last Sunday at Ohiri Field, the Tigers no longer hold first place in the Ivy League. That honor belongs to Yale...
Most undergraduates here would admit to believing, at least for a moment, in some special quality in Harvard. My moment came and went the summer after my high school graduation. Then, on the advice of a girl-friend, I got hold of a copy of Smithsonian magazine. The magazine, following the summer 1986 bandwagon, published an essay commemorating Harvard's much-ballyhooed 350th anniversary. It was written by a Melvin Maddocks--who like many authors of such pieces boasted a class year...
...will endure will follow a characteristic pattern. Initial shock and fears will give way to a burst of elation. But that will quickly fade as the extent of the devastation sinks in. While few residents must confront the death of a loved one, many have lost their homes, which hold immense emotional as well as financial value. The destruction of family photographs can be tantamount to obliterating one's personal history...
...claimed that the brouhaha was an attempt by Gorbachev to "ruin my health and have me withdrawn from the realm of political struggle." Not so, retorted Bakatin, who called a press conference to brand Yeltsin a liar and, giving the knife a turn, charge that his story "does not hold water." Yeltsin may recover from his soaking, but he may also discover that a politician whose private life becomes the butt of jokes eventually does not have to worry about his public life. Just ask Gary Hart...
...tombs of Nimrud's all powerful kings. The hunt is not without its dangers, however. Only after opening Princess Yabahya's grave did Muzahim's team decipher the ancient cuneiform curse inscribed on a marble tablet: "If anyone lays hands on my tomb . . . let the ghost of insomnia take hold of him for ever and ever...