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...that-guy’s unspeakable evils. So someone steps up to lead the charge and becomes, well, that guy. Pretty soon, you have a good chunk of that guys, or that gals, all in constant search of the trump. They, too, must exercise some sort of meaningless verbal one-upmanship, so that they too will get noticed. Time for yet another vote of “no confidence”—Harvard’s new favorite game that never grows...

Author: By Margaret M. Rossman | Title: Sectional Thinking | 2/21/2006 | See Source »

...they can sweep two teams that they combined to beat by 72 one month ago, they’ll be no worse than two games clear with five to play.As Penn takes that long bus ride back from Ithaca Saturday night, it will have nearly four weeks and five meaningless games standing between it and a matchup with a No. 3 or 4 seed in the NCAA tournament. It’s most daunting remaining game (a road visit to Yale) takes place during the league’s closing weekend, meaning that the Quakers could probably wear those...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: KING JAMES BIBLE: Be Aware, Penn’s Easy Road to Big Dance Spells Disaster | 2/16/2006 | See Source »

Hayes' reputation as more mystagogue than scientist is reinforced partly by how he and his colleagues teach ACT workshops: they do the hard science, but they also ask the participating therapists, usually roomfuls of Ph.D.s, to do things like repeat the word milk over and over (to show how meaningless words can become-try it with I'm depressed). And although Hayes teaches mindfulness at ACT workshops around the world, he epitomizes "the absent-minded professor," according to Barlow, the psychologist who taught Hayes at Brown in the '70s. Hayes is famous at Nevada-Reno for passing students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Third Wave of Therapy | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

This provision makes the right to challenge the gag order in court meaningless, national security policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union Timothy H. Edgar told The Crimson in December...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Act Could Up FBI Power | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

...Even the wave herself knows that history becomes meaningless once the puck drops in the gold-medal round. "It comes down to one game, and any team can win that game," says Wickenheiser. "Even if we haven't seen their best, we know what they are capable of, and we fully respect that. We focus on ourselves, on our team, on playing our kind of hockey." Canadian-American hockey. Don't forget your mouth guards, ladies. You will need them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: These Women Fight Dirty | 2/10/2006 | See Source »

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