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Since a gut-wrenching five-set loss to Boston College three weeks ago--one in which the Crimson was up two sets to none before succumbing--the team has been unable to close out leads against weaker opposition...
Students yesterday praised the phone line, though none of those contacted had heard about the service...
...recruiting representatives, while usually earnest and honest, won't answer all your questions. The one they duck most is the inquiry about their lifestyle and typical hours. None of them will say, "Look, they work me like a slave at Bank X. I work 80 or 90-hour weeks and my boss is a bully and a jerk. Also, if you do the math, I'm not even making minimum wage." You have to start working to find out that part of the equation...
...times I have come here, nobody's been here, and none of my friends ever come here either," she says, gesturing vaguely to the nearly vacant chairs and booths around...
Certainly, as even Williams stresses, our moral sentiments have lots of upside, including a heartening plasticity. They can be deployed less self-servingly than they were "designed" to be deployed. Darwin himself often felt pangs of concern about the plight of slaves, even though there were none in England to reciprocate his empathy. And consider the flush of compassion we feel upon witnessing, via TV, famine that is a hemisphere away. When moved by such images to donate money or canned goods--the rough opposite of greed and gluttony--we are in some Darwinian sense "misusing" our equipment of reciprocal...