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...superior to those of Yale. But as a reminder—and for the benefit of the hapless Elis making their way into beautiful Cambridge this weekend—The Crimson Staff has collected some lesser known, and often under-appreciated, face-offs between Harvard and the clearly inferior institution we call our rival...
...find yourself looking across Harvard Stadium at a screaming mass of Dark Blue and feeling somewhat inferior, take heart in the fact that we are—or for at least one weekend can pretend we are—almost on a par with the Elis...
...athletes are far more contemptuous than any remarks he quoted. When men’s heavyweight crew captain Michael J. Skey ’03 observed that athletes won’t stop training for seven weeks to join a cello group, he was neither saying that music is inferior to athletics nor that athletes are uninterested in other activities. Skey’s comment meant only that no one could become an active member of an orchestra in a mere seven weeks...
...backlash was understandable, says Pinker. Once you suggest that human nature is in any way hardwired, it's easier for the unscrupulous to write off entire groups as genetically inferior--as the Nazis did with Jews, Poles, Gypsies and gays. If have-nots are genetically lacking in drive or intelligence or ambition, what's the point of fighting poverty...
...Health Systems, based in Cypress, Calif., enters the market--the company hopes to put together a pilot program by late next year--and the cost of health insurance continues to rise at an annual rate of 12.7%. And in spite of the American Medical Association (AMA), which warns of inferior care in Mexico, the idea is winning converts in other border states, including Arizona and Texas, where legislators and academics are studying ways to set up their own cross-border plans...