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...settle down quite as fast, jumping from group to group for much of his freshman year before he finally put down his roots at the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF). Kathleen M. Goodson ‘07, on the other hand, dove in to HRCF at the very outset of her freshman fall because she wanted to immerse herself in a fellowship right away. But though each member of the HRCF board— Bryant, Goodson, Kristin T. Lee ‘07 and Keneshia D. Washington ‘07— found the organization in slightly different ways...
...attrition at The Palestra.The combative nature of the Quakers’ overtime victory was quickly established. Only 12 total fouls were called in the first half, as the referees let the two rivals settle their feud the old-fashioned way. “The referees from the outset were going to let the guys play,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “Our guys wanted to get into debate. There [wasn’t] going to be debate. They let the kids play, and it wound up being a terrific basketball game...
...settle the lawsuit. But in a brief letter dated Feb. 14, Vice President and General Counsel Robert W. Iuliano ’83 says the article does not make clear that Summers recused himself from the University’s decisions about the suit “from the outset of his presidency at Harvard.” The letter also says Summers did not participate in “judgements regarding whether, when or how Harvard should review the conduct of employees involved in the HIID project.” Shleifer, who was found liable by a federal court...
...Spencer Smith, carries the grating self-help title Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life (New Harbinger Publications; 207 pages). But the book, which has helped thrust Hayes into a bitter debate in psychology, takes two highly unusual turns for a self-help manual: it says at the outset that its advice cannot cure the reader's pain (the first sentence is "People suffer"), and it advises sufferers not to fight negative feelings but to accept them as part of life. Happiness, the book says, is not normal...
...about to miss an opportunity to bask in Sundance’s glory.In a way, they didn’t have to be there. Most filmmakers at the festival show up in order to find studio funding, but HBO bought the premise from Cutler at the outset of the project in 2002. Greenfield, Micheli, and Cutler were able to focus all their attention on enjoying the festival—the first for all three—and the completion of their four-year effort.The week in Utah was even more satisfying for the filmmakers because of the documentary?...