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...Mexico's midterm elections approached, observers began to wonder whether the domineering Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) might be successfully challenged for the first time in its 56-year history. Voters fed up with a stagnant economy and continuing official corruption might, some thought, help the opposition National Action Party (P.A.N.) knock the P.R.I. out of the governorships in two northern states, Sonora and Nuevo León. But the P.R.I. did not even wait for the polls to close last week before claiming a sweep of every office worth winning. The victory was tainted by widespread charges of stuffed ballot boxes...
Spring break is over. NYU recently beat Harvard for first in a list of “Dream Schools” published by the Princeton Review. You totally forgot the obscene, profanity-filled acronym you memorized to help you with theropods on your Dinosaurs midterm. And let’s not forget that thing that happened with President Lawrence H. Summers, a man whose name I only want to see in print again if it is followed by the words “has decided to give Pablo Torre a million dollars...
...sing at the top of your lungs to exorcise the demons while you get tucked into bed, and somehow, your life makes more sense than ever. Add that to a song that’s already about passionate loneliness, and you’ve got your video salvation for midterm studying...
Don’t laugh—the toddling talents that attend these schools triumphed over worse admissions odds than we. The next time you proudly sport your Harvard sweatshirt around town or console yourself after bombing a midterm by thinking of how many brilliant minds you beat out to get here, think twice. You only had to score well on a measly SAT, drop some big words in an interview, and write an appropriately maudlin 500 word essay. You don’t know how easy...
While the majority of Harvard students were either preparing for or recovering from midterm exams last weekend, six members of the Harvard Club Tennis Team traded books for rackets to compete in the 6th Annual United States Tennis Association (USTA) Team Tennis National Campus Championship, in San Diego, Calif...