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...Nick, 16, of Philadelphia, isn’t just here to sightsee. “Is Harvard competitive?,” he asks gravely. He carries a businesslike legal pad and wears an intent expression as he walks through the Yard with his father in tow. A high school junior, Nick is on the familiar college tour, squeezing Harvard in between visits to Brandeis and Yale. Rose and Shirley are looking much more excited. The two women, both from Virginia, have put in their time at the Coop. “I got six Harvard sweatshirts!,” crows...
...Saddam, a sucker for a new gadget or invention or toxin, may not have known what he actually had or, more to the point, didn't have. It would be an irony almost too much to bear to consider that he doomed his country to war because he was intent on protecting weapons systems that didn't exist in the first place...
Travis R. Kavulla ’06 writes in The Crimson of Sept. 30 that the Core is badly dumbed down and fails to serve its stated intent to teach “approaches” to knowledge (Column, "The Hollowed Core"). But Kavulla ignores successful aspects of the Core in his zeal to discredit...
...suppose there’s nothing inherently wrong with adulthood. What troubles me is—and please forgive me my generalizations—the danger of our passing directly from sober childhood to sober adulthood. What troubles me is the danger of our being too intent on someday sowing grass seed in our front yards in Greenwich, Connecticut, to ever sow any wild oats. It is not our precocious adulthood that troubles me so much as our precocious yuppiedom...
...supporters who gathered at Toad said they are intent on seeing Massachusetts pass a statewide ban on smoking in the workplace, a measure currently being considered by the state legislature...