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...begin with, it takes some abandon to pick a topic and stick with it. There is no way to predict what you will find, but it is a reliable rule that if you put in enough time, you will find something. Paul wrote to the Hebrews that belief was “the evidence of things not seen,” and as a researcher in the bowels of Widener, I have quested after as-of-yet-unseen evidence. Call it persistence, hard-headedness, or belief—but some such quality is vital to the early stages of finding...
...Major League Lacrosse’s Washington Bayhawks in the fourth round of the league’s collegiate draft on Thursday, the only Crimson player and one of 11 Ivy Leaguers chosen in the six-year-old league’s annual draft.Flood was the 32nd overall pick and the second pick of the fourth round in the 50-player, five-round draft. He was one of about 50 players present at the draft, held at Stony Brook University, and one of about 40 who were chosen.A number of teams had expressed interest in Flood prior to the draft...
That just doesn’t seem fair. It’s not like the life of a Harvard undergraduate is without its pressures. Once we beat the odds and get in, there is still the pressure to fit in with our classmates, the pressure to pick a concentration, and even the pressure to make our mark on the John Harvard statue. Some of us are faced with the pressure of getting into a final club, making that team, dating that girl or guy in section, whatever it may be. And our classes. Them too. This is the environment that...
...fellow Democrats want a Presidential nominee long on experience, vision and brains, they will persuade former Vice President Gore to throw his hat into the ring. President George W. Bush's disastrous terms have shown us all how hazardous it is to pick a President with very little relevant experience. Good intentions, handsome hairstyles and slick sound bites don't help much when the chips are down...
...consume a disproportionate share of the nation's total health care tab. And as with a number of other reform proposals, including one by his Presidential rival John Edwards, Obama would set up a health insurance program similar to that now offered to federal employees, where the uninsured could pick among a group of plans, with subsidies provided to those who could not afford to buy in. But one idea that Obama rejected is a so-called "individual mandate," similar to that being tried in Massachusetts and proposed in California, where everyone would be required to buy health insurance, just...