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...that the No. 12 Harvard men’s tennis team is necessarily tired, but with a heartbreaking 4-3 loss in the finals of last weekend’s Blue Gray Invitational, the current pain of midterms and an all-important trip to California looming on the spring break horizon, the Crimson (9-3) is certainly busy...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CONTRIBUTINGWRITER | Title: Harvard Open Gives M. Tennis a Chance to Relax | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...tinge of intrigue, the taste of victory, the pain of defeat. For close to 75 members of the Math Club and their guests, Pi Day is an epic quest for mathematical, as well as digestive, domination. 3.14159 (etc...), revered for its infinite mystery and natural frequency, is the reason why Math Club revelers are celebrating “a bad approximation” of pi on a snowy Friday afternoon. Though typically celebrated on March 14 at 3:14 p.m., the Math Club decided to settle with the inaccuracy of celebrating on March 12th at 3:12 p.m. because March...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Williams, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Piece of their Pie | 3/18/2004 | See Source »

...historical, and not enough attention had been paid to the poems,” Vendler recalls. Nowhere in many of the most thorough studies of Yeats’ career, Vendler laments, does it mention the poetic structure of his work. “The poets take a lot of pain in not writing prose, so if you ignore the pains they have taken in not writing prose, it seems to be you’re ignoring the great energy that went into creating something [in verse],” Vendler says. Vendler asserts her significance in the field with intensely...

Author: By Nathaniel F. Houghteling, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pen and Paper Revolutionaries: Poetic Promoter | 3/18/2004 | See Source »

...Kerry fought in Vietnam in the 1960s. That was a valuable experience, because it gave him an understanding of the suffering, pain, brutality and injustice of war. And now Kerry may be more careful and reluctant to declare war on countries that don't fit into the American view of the world. That would be a blessing for us all! Kim Sae Yung Seoul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...confidence “arrogance,” her assertiveness “bossiness.” One article called her “a steely-eyed, tart-tongued control-freak executive brought low by hubris.” Another described her as “an uppity, pain-in-the-neck genius.” A letter to the editor in USA Today summed up this attitude perfectly: “It is that smug, arrogant, ‘I’m-above-all-of-you’ attitude that would make a jail sentence all the sweeter...

Author: By Lia C. Larson, SKIRTING CONVENTION | Title: Martha Stewart's Recipe for Failure | 3/12/2004 | See Source »

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