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...Harvard students were forced to play a competitive sport each season, or even only each year, they would be able to learn for themselves the invaluable lessons that even the most august university education cannot, or refuses to, teach. Not every student has the aptitude for varsity athletics, and Harvard ought not change its admission policy to privilege that aptitude more highly, but every student stands to gain from the experience of collegiate sports...
...light truck” loophole for sport utility vehicles and creating more market-oriented incentives for the development of plug-in hybrid vehicles and flex-fuel technologies. As high gas prices and a collapsing housing market continue to harm American families, it is important that policymakers learn to separate politicking from actual policymaking. H.R. 6899 demonstrates that by defusing hot-button squabbles, it is possible to move ahead on issues of actual import. We hope to see not only a bicameral consensus on this issue emerge before Congress adjourns next week, but more collaborative action in addressing the systemic energy...
...Peterzan, the two have been making strides this fall. “They’re playing well,” Peterzan said. “Maybe they haven’t played too much doubles in the past, but there’s so much more we can learn and improve on and we’re doing well as it is. It just shows how much better we can be.” In the lower doubles brackets, the team of senior Catriona Stewart and Laciny went 0-2, losing to teams from Penn and Yale. This week...
...opportunity for us to reach not just people on campus but all over Boston,” he said. “People have been very receptive.” Frank D. Hines ’85, the founder of Frank Hines Financial, said HollaDay allowed him to both learn from and help students. “It’s about extending students the opportunity to rise above financial challenges,” he said. “I did Dorm Crew at Harvard—I have heart for students who have to work to survive...
Most parents, of course, know this instinctively. Still, it's useful to learn that teenage behavior is not just a matter of willful pigheadedness or determination to drive you crazy - though these, too, can be factors. "There's a debate over how much conscious control kids have," says Giedd, who has four "teenagers in training" of his own. "You can tell them to shape up or ship out, but making mistakes is part of how the brain optimally grows." It might be more useful to help them make up for what their brain still lacks by providing structure, organizing their...