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Many students said the timing of the decision and the fact that it only affects first-year students directly has meant few upperclass students are paying heed...
Becoming a member of Harvard's oldest a cappella singing group means performing over 150 concerts a year. It means singing for leaders foreign and domestic and for charities like the American Red Cross or Mothers Against Drunk Driving. And for this year's group of Kroks, it meant entertaining at several Ryder Cup events...
...then I think about my smiling baby daughter, four months old. I realize that everything I did I had to do, or I wouldn't have this particular child. And if that meant taking a pass on the greatest creation of wealth in the history of the world, then I played it right...
...would be a sad state of affairs if Austin Powers were remembered as one of the great cultural icons of this decade. That isn't meant to be a comment on Austin Powers himself. Quite the contrary, it is my belief that in his good-natured, if somewhat inept, international man of mystery, Mike Myers has found one of the greatest and most sustainable comic characters in memory. Myers as Austin Powers has that rare ability to make us laugh before he even says a word, and it is a laughter that comes without a hint of cynicism or meanness...
...that it is so much more: the rediscovery of beauty in the world, of accessible pleasures. Still, he really does little more than abandon his adult responsibilities and regress to teenage indulgences. Lester's raging at the dying of the light might be a little more poignant if it meant more than rediscovering psychedelia and getting into a coed's pants. Furthermore, Angela (played by the svelte and perceptive Mena Suvari) is nearly as brittle and shallow as Lester's wife. Lester isn't checking out of the race, he's just trading up for a newer model...