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...Harvard Varsity Lightweights’ 2004-05 LP, or Lightweight Protocol, Kummer is the “lighter, but by no means lesser” equivalent of the heavies’ Master of Protocol, responsible for ensuring the team’s compliance with the ancient, yet arbitrary constitution of Newell Boathouse. In boathouse religion, he is the high priest; in boathouse justice, he is judge, jury and executioner; in the boathouse’s royal court, he is the honored jester...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kummer Metes Out Justice | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

...works hard but has fun doing it and makes everyone around him have fun doing it,” said captain Patrick Haas, who has rowed with Kummer since high school. “He’s practically a captain, but his major thing is giving everything a lighter side...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kummer Metes Out Justice | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

During the spring, Berman played an integral role in planning the course, when she took a lighter course load at the College—only enrolling in two classes—to help the class’ two new professors write the course materials from scratch. She said that writing the exams was particularly challenging...

Author: By Anne E. Benson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Undergraduates Lead Sections | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

...Since the treaty requires intervention, many world leaders have been loathe to even use the word “genocide,” but despite semantics, reality is clear. Arab farmers are killing black men and gang-raping and mutilating black women so that they will have lighter-skinned babies and be too ashamed to return to their villages...

Author: By Brandon M. Terry, | Title: While We Were Sleeping... | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

YEARS AGO, CONSUMERS WERE WARNED that small cars were unsafe. I got a bigger car. Now I'm supposed to give up the safety of my SUV for the better mileage of a lighter car? No way. My wife and I worked long and hard to be able to afford a larger, safer car and we're not about to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 18, 2004 | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

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