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...first couple of lessons that we were all nervous to be taught by the president of Harvard,” Siddharth Suchde ’07 says. “Before you open your mouth, you better be damn sure that you know what you are saying...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Discuss Experiences in Summers’ Seminar | 1/16/2004 | See Source »

...Quigley prepares to turn in her paper today, she admits that she is “a little nervous...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Discuss Experiences in Summers’ Seminar | 1/16/2004 | See Source »

...party activists and the pitifully lonely, but it can actually lead to an informed decision. And while three hours seems like a lot to give up for democracy, it's shorter than that last Lord of the Rings movie. The lack of a secret ballot does make some people nervous, but having to declare your political opinion in public probably keeps people from voting for things they should be ashamed of, such as liking cats. Plus there's something nice about getting together with your neighbors to eat cookies and talk about politics. Once every four years seems about right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Jury Duty? You'll Love Caucuses | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...tried not to work myself into a nervous [state], to just go out and have fun and play hard for the guys in front of me.” Daigneau said. “It’d been a while since I’d seen game time...so I just went out and focused on things I could do well and tried to keep the game simple...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Daigneau Makes A Triumphant Return | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...demonize a man who lives in a hole. As we get on with the unglamorous business of rebuilding Iraq, we may miss the utility of having a bogeyman in Baghdad. That is the point of C.P. Cavafy?s wonderful poem ?Waiting for the Barbarians.? A city is on edge, nervous about a threat that, its people slowly realize, will never come. ?What?s going to happen to us without barbarians?? asks the narrator. ?They were, those people, a kind of solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Semiotics of Saddam | 12/29/2003 | See Source »

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