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Sexiest physical trait: Lack of pattern recognition...
...David B. Wilkins ’77 are black, and blacks are not usually a top source of political dollars. If many of the Clinton contributors were Jewish, would The Crimson be sure to state that fact? News media ought to avoid such divisive references altogether, unless the usage pattern and news value can be explained. As it is, a reader of the article might think that The Crimson has special policies for reporting on Mormons...
...time of 9.6 seconds. I remember that there were only four other runners, that the only good one was the kid who beat me by over a second, and that it didn’t matter because I was taking home hardware for the first time that year.Notice a pattern?While the majority of my accomplishments in life has been limited to the realm of academics, many of the moments that I recall with the most vivid clarity and nostalgic fondness revolve around sports—an area in which I struggle to maintain respectability, and have never truly excelled.Although...
...jobs they took-many of them white-collar jobs at the heart of the Asian economic boom-robbed them of a family life, too. Today, their sons-the third generation and the present crop of fathers-are the product of two previous generations of absent dads. "The pattern of fatherlessness can be passed down," says Wong Suen Kwong, who says he started the Centre for Fathering because he was having trouble relating to his teenage daughters...
...looked at first like a random bunch of data points, a sprinkling of outliers beyond the curve of normal human experience. But when you stepped back, a pattern emerged. What these personal turns had in common was the apprehension that, well, we're all connected. Everything leans on something, is propped up by something--is both dependent and depended...