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...pick up and more people will start coming.” Some students—particularly seniors—were surprised to hear that the juniors had established their own bar schedule. Firth M. McEachern ’08, an active Senior Bar attendant, was caught off-guard by the genesis of Junior Bar, but said he was not upset by it. “Quite a few juniors go to Senior Bar,” he said. “There was definitely a demand for a Junior Bar.” Junior and Senior Bars benefit not only...
...there is nothing static about family reaction. Parents are often caught off-guard by the arrival of the new technology in their children's school. Last fall, Jim Karlsberger's eight-year-old son returned from school with a newsletter briefly reporting that lunchroom finger scanning was set to begin. "I thought it was Orwellian," says Karlsberger, a 43-year-old hotel manager in Williams, Ariz. "I find it hard to believe that someone, someday, won't find a way to compromise the information on my child's fingerprint." He rallied dozens of parents and the American Civil Liberties union...
...game on a Yale throwing error. Harvard got its final two runs in the fourth thanks largely to Bulldog miscues. With two outs, Stoeckel was hit by a pitch, and senior second baseman Brendan Byrne reached on an error by Yale shortstop Dan Soltman. The Crimson caught the Bulldogs off-guard with a double steal that put the two runners in scoring position. They were both brought home on a Vance single to wrap up the scoring. “We had an efficient attack, breaking out early.” Walsh said. “And we put pressure...
...turned Hizballah and Iran into regional power brokers, and brought jubilant Shi'ites into the streets in Iraq, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Traditional Sunni powers such as Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt found themselves pushed to the sidelines, unable to influence events. Even al-Qaeda was caught off-guard as it watched Hizballah steal some of its thunder. The reaction of Sunni rulers and radicals was swift: They denounced Hizballah's campaign as an Iranian-sponsored Shi'a power grab. And even though the war popularized Hizballah on the Sunni Arab street, it did not close the sectarian divide - particularly...
...during his freshman year, in which he displayed a huge picture of an eye on his Canaday dorm window and shouted, “I am an eye” at passersby. ‘THREATENING THEIR JOBS’Despite reveling in catching people off-guard, Hwang says that the other candidates have reason to see him as a serious contender.“At UC meetings, we were politely asked to drop out,” he says. Because this year’s candidate pool is so large, Hwang says that the votes among the top contenders...