Word: lande
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Snowden's partner under the basket, senior Chris Grancio, is a steady scorer and rebounder and has a knack for burning unsuspecting opponents from three-point land. Grancio leads the Crimson in three-pointers made--not too bad for a 6-8 post player...
...does Harvard, a school with so many resources and talented faculty, so often land us in impersonal lecture halls and sections? What are other-schools doing differently? U.S. News also noted that our student to faculty ratio is twelve to one, four more students per professor than at Princeton. Proportionally, they have 50 percent more faculty members than we do, a fact that spells larger classes and less personal attention...
This move is distressing because starting next year it will land some 30 first-years in Apley Court, a dormitory isolated from all other first-year housing. With Harvard buildings spilling out way beyond Harvard's adorned gates, it is clear that the days of a "College in a Yard" are long gone...
...positive spin on the decision, Associate Dean of Freshmen in Residence Lorraine Sterritt argued, "These students will be as close if not closer [to the Yard] than those living in the Union dorms." But past expansion cannot justify another round of housing sprawl, let alone one that will land a dorm between the Hasty Pudding Club and the Delhi Darbar restaurant. And even if Hurlbut, Pennypacker and Greenough no longer have the Union, at least they have each other...
...violence in recent years. Yet, the PLO and Hamas are referred to as terrorists while the Israeli government is not. This phenomenon is not limited to the Middle East--why is the US government not considered an illegitimate terrorist organization who wiped out many Native Americans and conquered land that was not ours? The sad fact is that in war, the winners are called governments and the losers are called terrorists...