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...after yesterday's narrow 13-12 Harvard victory over the Engineers at Brown, coupled with the Crimson's 10-9 loss to MIT last Tuesday, it appears every win is destined to be a struggle...
...Crimson's opening match was as close as one might expect a matching of wits in a more academic pursuit between the two schools. The teams went goal for goal most of the game, until Harvard built and protected a narrow lead in the fourth quarter...
...looked at my relatively healthy, affluent and protected upbringing in suburban St. Louis, and it continues to color my observations of a highly individualistic, often cold and uncaring Harvard today. I see religion all around me. But the gods included in this pantheon are named Money, Narrow Ambition, Mindless Competition and Consumption. So the story goes...
...recall the rebirth of radical feminism, culminating in the so-called "Year of the Woman" in Washington. Any way you slice it, the early 1990s were years of activism on steroids, when everyone and anyone with a cause felt justified in taking any actions whatsoever to propel their narrow agenda forward with the rest of their zealous cohorts...
...addition to contributing to the alarming breakdown of discourse, zealots and their ilk also possess the peculiar trait of often being, well, just plain wrong. Oh, they start out right, but somewhere along the way they veer off the narrow path and start clearing new trails of their own. Much as they can still see the original path, there's still some ounce of truth left in their claims, but it's been shrouded by the questionable data and dubious claims that are the hallmark of fanatics the nation over...