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With over 350 diverse student organizations on campus, it is only natural for certain rivalries to exist. The Harvard Republican Club and the Harvard College Democrats may have the most obvious battles (including a paintball fight every year), but they’re certainly not the only two clubs with beef. 1) The Catholic Student Association vs. the Chinese Students Association. The CSAs are tired of people confusing their events—that wine is not to celebrate Chinese New Year. And it’s not cheap. 2) The Harvard Advocate vs. The Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association...
...Themselves With Veritas insignias gracing even Harvard people’s waffles, it’s obvious Harvard people are obsessed with their status as Harvard people. They’re also obsessed with reading, writing, thinking, and talking about themselves...
...Stock said. “Secretary [of the Faculty Noel] Bisson knows, but she won’t tell you unless you ask her.” Before beginning the discussion of the proposal, Professor of German Peter J. Burgard elected to take the initiative. “The obvious question is, do we have a quorum?” Burgard asked, setting in motion a brief flurry of activity at the front of the Faculty Room, where Bisson, smiling, rose to tear a sheet of paper off of her small yellow notebook pad. Examining the sheet, University President Drew...
...fear now is that the regime will encourage the veterans to deploy to opposition strongholds across the country. Just where those bastions are located is now all too obvious in the results posted on the sides of polling stations across Zimbabwe. "Our guys voted Zanu-PF, which was a disappointment," said the South Africa-based brother of one white farmer who has held onto his land in northern Zimbabwe. "But in hindsight, it's a blessing in disguise. The next-door farm voted M.D.C., and those guys are pretty worried...
...surprise me. But underneath that commotion—of players hustling to the puck or going for the body check in the corner—every game seemed to have one of those moments (call it a turning point, for lack of a better word) that only becomes obvious with the knowledge of the final score. Maybe it was a missed opportunity, the outcome of a one-on-one battle, or as random as a puck bouncing to the stick of the player, who happened to be attacking the net at just the right angle. Those moments only become part...