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...opening round of the NCAA Tournament, the third time in three seasons that Harvard has bowed out early in the NCAAs. Taken in total, it is a hard season to judge. But if you only consider the season’s first step and its last, mild disappointment is the only pronouncement I can make...
Hughes hints obliquely at this tension in the book. Recalling work on Bush's first speech to Congress, she takes a mild swipe at the G.O.P.'s fixation on tax reduction. "I had worried that the initial drafts of the address had led with the proposed tax cuts," she writes, "the same tax cuts that had propelled us to a resounding 49% victory." Not that she doesn't support cutting taxes, Hughes explains now, but it's a mistake for Republicans to focus on such a "polarizing issue" while giving short shrift to "other big-picture needs." Rather than accept...
...Bennifer) affair was mild as Hollywood kerfuffle goes. They fell in love, got engaged, broke it off. That sort of embarrassment must happen to a million unfamous people a year. It used to happen to Julia Roberts several times a week. In an awful reverse synergy, the breakup was paired with a famous flop they both starred in, Gigli. Part of that stemmed from the magnitude of the flop. Gigli wasn't car-crash bad; that kind of movie gets rubberneckers into the theaters. It was the sort of event people avert their eyes from. It was man-urinating...
Walsh laughs about that story now, but has made sure Salsgiver’s lack of mound time won’t repeat this season. Despite mild arm pain, the sophomore will be the team’s regular closer, coming into games in the ninth inning to finish ballgames...
Campus Politico Steve Sheen ’05 is truly serving the pleasure of the body politic, or at least fifty percent of it. It seems that while Sheen might be a mild-mannered campus bureaucrat by day, he is indeed a promising leader of the student body by night, at least according to the half-dozen unsolicited appraisals of Sheen’s bed time performances that Gossip Guy has received from the highly satisfied women of Harvard, who are ever mindful of the power of positive reinforcement. How does he find the time...