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...easy it is to overcommit without fully committing. In her first year, Hammond had a Best Buddy to mentor, a spirited 12-year-old girl from Martin Luther King Junior school, balanced shifts at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, and kept up intramurally the sports she’d done in high school—volleyball and soccer. “I had no idea what commitment at Harvard was like,” she confesses. “I realized I couldn’t do everything.” Eventually, Best Buddies made a decision for her: that...

Author: By Matthew J. Amato, Meghan M. Dolan, and Lily X. Huang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Volunteerism at Harvard | 10/2/2003 | See Source »

Throughout the season’s early going, opposing squads continually exploited the Crimson’s tendency to slightly overcommit on offense, leaving Harvard vulnerable to the counterattack...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brown Thwarts W. Water Polo at Northerns | 4/14/2003 | See Source »

...ability to be an honest broker, we throw away an opportunity to be a part of the peace process. Bush concurred - but underscored the military and humanitarian responsibilities of neighboring countries, a point he revisited whenever the topic of American peacekeeping was broached. "We do not want to overcommit our troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Round 2: In Which Bush and Gore Sit Down for a Nice, Civilized Chat | 10/12/2000 | See Source »

Last week, the offense struck for two long scoring plays, a 45-yard bomb and a 62-yard reverse by sophomore wide receiver Terence Patterson. This could be a sign that the effective Crimson running game is making defenses overcommit to the line of scrimmage...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Football Looks for Vengeance | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...Alcoholics primed readers for Beattie's message, which has a special resonance for women who often feel like powerless victims, nurturing everyone but themselves. Beattie offers a list of more than 200 codependent tendencies. The sufferers "feel anxiety, pity and guilt when other people have a problem" and "overcommit themselves." In the book portion titled "The Basics of Self-Care," Beattie suggests that her readers should "feel your own feelings" and "have a love affair with yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MELODY BEATTIE: Taking Care of Herself | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

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