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...does this, however, there is a risk that the new center might broaden the divide between students who are extracurricularly active and students who are not, the latter of whom might have gone to a nearby JCR for an occasional meeting but would not make the trek to Hilles. By raising the barrier to entry for participating in groups for all those who live outside the Quad, the casually involved might drop off as the heavily involved step up their involved and collaboration...
...celebrate a tragedy is an odd thing; it seems difficult to know whether to mourn an age or to applaud its death. The former is nostalgic, the latter ironic. Though to presume either is perhaps to overestimate the good gentlemen of the Fly, who did not think so deeply...
This led, predictably, to a kind of spiritual emptiness: restless, confused beings who sought crude material fulfillment. For Fitzgerald, the nouveau riche were vulgar and ostentatious, and the old aristocracy not much better. Though graceful, he found the latter bored (Jordan), shallow (Jordan, Daisy), or thick (Tom). All were confused; all were unhappy. The title then, is ironic, and the “great” refers less to reality than to Gatsby’s misguided ambitions, most of them unfulfilled...
...that early hour the water was horrible.”An hour-plus delay and a race course change later, the Crimson seemed unaffected by the road trip and the adverse conditions. Both varsity entries sped out to open-water leads before the 1000-meter mark and spent the latter 1000 adding more open water to an already one-sided race. “Once you get through a crew, you want to push harder just to continually widen that margin,” said sophomore varsity four-seat Joe Medioli. “The focus is always on widening...
...ordinary Russians. Unlike other oligarchs who went abroad with the billions they'd amassed during the Yeltsin years, the Yukos tycoon returned to face a trial widely viewed as crooked, and ultimately prison. In many an eye, that may have transformed him from yet another sleazy oligarch into the latter-day equivalent of that Soviet-era icon of dissent: a prisoner of conscience. "The Kremlin has done free campaigning for him," quips legislator Alexei Mitrophanov...