Word: luck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...miserable. My academic performance plummeted from near-perfect marks as a first-year to Group III. For a time, I found myself withdrawing socially, a situation that even led to an unwanted late-night brush with University Health Services. I pulled out of the slump, thanks to a little luck and a lot of help from friends, mostly from this newspaper and from Kirkland, my adopted House. What surprised me is that no one on an administrative level at Harvard noticed any of these warning signs. Or if anyone did, they certainly made no effort contact me. Hell, even...
...made it a point of trying to be involved in companies or businesses that were either start-up or that had really fallen on tough times," he says. "When a company is down on luck it's much more open to change. There's so much to do, and I can help find the focus of the organization...
...have been pushing for this for a while," he says. "It should have happened three years ago, but the Russians kept it taped together until now out of pride." Chuckle not, NASA -- the ISS, already late and over budget before it's even habitable, should have half Mir's luck. "Say what we will about Mir's jalopy days, next spring will be 14 years for a station intended to last only five," says Kluger. "Most of those years were smooth and uneventful." Now Mir's current crew will be its last. The three cosmonauts will abandon ship in August...
...face it--I am pretty much out of luck. As a columnist dedicated to applauding the spirit of community service and activism pulsing through our campus, I have hit the off- season...
...face it--I am pretty much out of luck. As a columnist dedicated to applauding the spirit of community service and activism pulsing through our campus, I have hit the off- season...