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Flash forward two years and nationally the Democrats are (finally) in power, and the Harvard College Democrats appear to be the loftiest, most influential organization on campus. But their prominence on campus is now a mutated takeover, one that resembles some horrific virus from a Michael Crichton science-fiction saga. I’ve got the Center for Disease Control on speed dial because many of my liberal compatriots are infected by something that I fear may be highly contagious...
...explain the Bush administration? Or more precisely, how to explain the defining characteristic of George W. Bush's presidency - this fondness for rhetorical extravagance, this straining after greatness, this implausible invocation of only the loftiest goals and purposes...
...network. The rest of us, though, we discriminating readers of the online edition of The Crimson, we Wikipedians and fans of Google Scholar, might take a bit of offense at such nomenclature.It should come as something of a surprise, then, that creating a dumb network was among the loftiest goals of the founding fathers of the Internet. What they meant by “dumb” is that the network itself—the routers, switches, and cables that cross the world—should be agnostic to the sort of data it is carrying. All information, whether...
...most unexpected and comforting, recent research confirms that the human brain retains an astonishing degree of plasticity and capacity for learning throughout life. In some respects, our mental performance, despite a few glitches with short-term memory, doesn't peak until midlife, when the white matter in the loftiest parts of the brain is thickest...
...Harvard’s loftiest upset aspirations disappeared with a low, inside Morgalis fastball that Fullerton outfielder Danny Dorn golfed into the netting high above the right field fence, and which appeared to rise up and out of the stadium with the wind...