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...ugly performance on the court was just one component of an overall depressing night at Lavietes Pavilion. With sub-zero winds in the forecast and the Harvard student body in post-exam hibernation, the crowd on Friday night was as dull and lifeless as ever, drawing out any remaining life-blood from a supposed rivalry game that pitted a 5-10 Yale squad against an 8-8 Harvard team. Yale fans in attendance seemed to equal, if not exceed, Crimson supporters, and with no Harvard cheerleaders in sight, Yale’s cheerleading squad took the floor at every opportunity...
Besides, too much parity can be a bad thing. Dynasties are the life-blood of American sports, especially baseball. A common hatred of the Yankees brings fans across the nation together every fall. Without New York’s 26 championships, their annual showdown with the Red Sox wouldn’t be such an electric, riveting affair. Would you rather see the confusing parity that now exists in the NFL, where every year is a crapshoot, and teams come out of nowhere one year (hello Carolina) before quickly fading the next (goodbye Tampa...
...endowment, managed by the Harvard Management Company, is one of the nation’s largest investors, with total assets valued at more than $22 billion. Like other institutional investors, college and university endowments typically hold stock in scores of the roughly 400 publicly traded companies that provide the life-blood of terrorist-sponsoring states...
...always happy to see girl scouts because where there exists brownies, cadettes or any other rank of scoutette, there exists Girl Scout cookies. These $3-a-box commodities provide the life-blood for times of hardship, particularly now when a sense of springtime social responsibility has combined with my need for unconventional meals given my obligation to write 60 pages in the next two weeks...
...Crimson’s weekly magazine, then called What Is to Be Done?, underwent a name change. This massive list of names reveals the many facets of the editors’ collective psyche. Here is evidenced the creativity that has been the life-blood of the endeavor. Read, and imagine What Could Have Been Done...