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...Losing down there pretty handily was a kick in the butt and a wakeup call that forced us to rethink our approach and everything we’re about,” captain Charles Altchek said. “When it was over, we all got together and really buckled down as a team knowing full well that if we lost to Yale the next weekend, or even if we tied, it was probably the end of our Ivy League title hopes...

Author: By Courtney D. Skinner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TEAM OF THE YEAR: On the Ball | 6/5/2007 | See Source »

...make the right decisions in our own lives - if we eat the right foods, and stay active, and listen to our wives when they tell us to stop smoking." That last reference drew a knowing chuckle from his audience, where many were familiar with Obama's own struggle to kick his nicotine habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Channels Hillary on Health Care | 5/29/2007 | See Source »

...keep things in perspective, and learn for learning’s sake. After all, written above the gate entering Harvard Yard is the phrase “Enter to grow in wisdom,” not “Enter to get easy A’s and a kick-ass job after you graduate.” I may not have aced all of my classes, but I am confident that I have grown in wisdom. In high school my mom used to tell me that I had the maturity of an 8-year-old, but now she compares...

Author: By Eric A. Kester | Title: Getting In is the Hardest Part | 5/25/2007 | See Source »

...ABHW have now switched gears to kick start their "I Am Harvard" Campaign, which seeks to promote awareness of what they perceive as a problem of racism on campus. Though we may not all agree with the sentiment that motivated this campaign, we ought to embrace the effort, in order to demonstrate a campus wide commitment to racial progressivism. In this way, we may show that this is, in fact, our Harvard—not the divisive community Counter and his gang would like to invent as a weapon in their hyper-p.c. crusade...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Dishonest Discourse | 5/21/2007 | See Source »

...Wednesday evening, as their classmates prepared to bare skin for Primal Scream, about a hundred students rallied on the steps of University Hall to kick off the “I Am Harvard” campaign, intended to show that skin of all colors belongs at Harvard...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Undergraduates Kick Off Diversity Campaign at Primal Scream | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

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