Word: minor
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...Columbia this weekend and earning a tie against Bucknell, the Crimson limps off the mat to a much-needed respite before the conference championships begin on March 2 at East Stroudsburg. In all three matches, Harvard held back tri-captain Robbie Preston and sophomore Andrew Flanagan, both recovering from minor injuries, to ensure they can be as healthy as possible for the conference tournament. Despite being shorthanded, however, the Crimson wrestled with impressive intensity. “We weren’t intimidated and we were the ones pushing the action,” tri-captain Max Meltzer said.Harvard...
...coming decades will be ones of intellectual renewal and quiet, steady accomplishment. May I suggest that the new president make it an early priority to raise the scholarly standards required of current undergraduates? It is no doubt a thankless task to undertake, but one that would have the minor benefit of improved commentary in The Crimson. DAVID S. GREWAL ’98 February 13th, 2007 Cambridge...
Kropotkin was an aristocrat who, after being imprisoned for his insurrectionist activities, escaped and fled to England in 1876. He also drew the first good topographic maps of Siberia and wrote a memoir of his revolutionary days that has become a minor classic. More to the point, he proposed in his 1902 book, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, that the survival of animal species and much of human progress depended on the tendency to help others...
...temptation to read all 248 pages out loud. The lush descriptions of Arlington Park and its residents seem to enter the transcendent realm of poetry.Unfortunately, eloquence does not in itself make a book engaging, and Cusk is perhaps a little too aware of her literary prowess. An otherwise minor descriptive line will stretch out into a paragraph, a paragraph into a page, a page into a chapter, and so on, with the end result that “Arlington Park” resembles a hardy green woolen scarf whose orderly knit rows are interrupted by splotches of purple silk?...
...takes a tough and rugged disposition to be a minor celebrity.Take Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton’s buxom, collagen-enhanced best friend, who briefly dated Nick Lachey and then promptly released a sex tape starring none other than Ray-J, Brandy’s little brother.Kim Kardashian, I think, has a hard life. Not only must she carry an absolutely shiteous, metallic tote bag to the beach while she and Paris are vacationing in Australia (just so she and Paris can have matching shiteous tote bags in almost neon shades of bronze), she must also content herself with...