Word: momentous
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...part of it is that from the first moment you come to Harvard, the first people you meet are people from the team,” he said. “I’d been for the first 10 days of my Harvard experience exclusively with the cross country team, stuck in the woods of New Hampshire with nothing to do, so you get to know people pretty well...
...this end, the Crimson Arts Board proudly presents to you its annual Best of the Year Poll. For a glorious, fleeting moment, it will make you forget all the papers you're supposed to be writing. Then you can get back to watching this on repeat...
Last Monday, the generally sage New York Times columnist David Brooks drew a somber line in the sand for health-care reform: “We all have to decide what we want at this moment in history, vitality or security. We can debate this or that provision, but where we come down will depend on that moral preference.” In the eyes of Brooks and a great many others, reform may very well create a more decent society—but only at the expense of economic dynamism and our oh-so-youthful American spirit...
...believe the health-care system is presently in less-than-robust condition, the argument that we’ll become less dynamic with change makes little sense. If you take a moment to reflect on the last few years, Brooks’s premise that the unregulated market normally directs capital to the fresh, flourishing, and socially productive doesn’t seem entirely truthful. Indeed, we’ve seen throughout the economic crisis that unregulated capital is often prone to fall to the aged, entrenched, and socially disconnected...
...rival the University of Southern California in South Bend, Ind. On the day of the game, thousands of fans formed a receiving line and screamed as the players strolled through the gauntlet of cheers. "Goddam gifts to God!" shouted one supporter in unholy praise. "Probably be the best damn moment of their lives." The team's captain and quarterback, Jimmy Clausen, 22, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., had been the nation's top high school football player when he turned down all other offers to play at Notre Dame. Arriving on campus in a Hummer - a flashier entrance than the team...