Word: musters
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...five years of deliberation if it has an underlying vision behind which currently apathetic faculty, students, and administrators can rally. For that vision we look to the Standing Committee on General Education, which has quite a challenge in front of it. With all of the optimism we can muster in the face of such foreboding omens, we wish it godspeed...
...Committee has admitted the senselessness of such administrative hurdles; the Faculty need not await the full implementation of General Education in order to make that adjustment for the existing Core. Furthermore, the committees that decide what counts meet so infrequently that even those students whose petitions would pass muster under the byzantine requirements of the current system must wait months to hear back, if they ever do. In order to fix this problem, petitions should not only be granted for more courses, but also the process by which they are granted must be streamlined. The Faculty’s embarrassing...
...over par overall. “Mia proved she was ready to go out there and play with us,” Balmert said. “She seemed very comfortable out there, and she played very consistently.” Harvard will need all the consistency it can muster this coming weekend, as it heads to Princeton to play in a tournament featuring the rival Tigers as well as Ivy League foes Columbia and Yale. Down the road, on Oct. 6 and 7, comes the all-important ECAC Championship. —Staff writer Jonathan B. Steinman...
...quick to complain about how Harvard draws the strength out of us when the real leech lurks within. It takes a certain level of stubbornness to reject our common compulsion to activity for even the shortest while. But if we were able to muster this up and deny ourselves freneticism in the summer, we might find that its output would be returned to us, interest paid, during the rest of the year...
...have overestimated the dictator's popularity. More than a dozen parliamentarians from Musharraf's own party have defected to Sharif's faction, and Bhutto's PPP is also fracturing over the prospect of supporting Musharraf. Even with Bhutto's backing, it is no longer certain that Musharraf could muster the votes to retain the presidency. "He is in a shoestring situation," says Iftikhar Gilani, the former Law Minister under Bhutto. "He needs each vote, and he doesn't have a clear majority. Once he starts counting the votes, he will realize that he will not have enough, and will have...