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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...have to wonder: is the responder really as excited about answering as they sound? In any case, ending ordinary e-mail or text message correspondences in this manner has become increasingly normal. However, it illustrates a dangerous trend in punctuation: the overuse of the exclamation point. Although the more frequent use of this point may appear to just be a better representation of our own exuberance, the consequences of this trend include misrepresentations of our meanings and emotions...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: Missing the Point | 5/10/2010 | See Source »

...part of and not separate from the animal kingdom. We have to learn to live in greater harmony with the natural world because we are in the process of creating so much destruction that the point will come when mother nature can’t restore herself...

Author: By Kathryn C. Reed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Jane Goodall | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

...thinking about the consequences of the choices we make each day and realize that if they’re multiplied a billion times you start to see the kind of change that we must have if we care about the world for our future. There’s no point in me trying to kill myself to try to save chimps or forests, or for anybody trying to save anything, if the same old business as usual continues. It’s got to change...

Author: By Kathryn C. Reed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Jane Goodall | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

...group presentation to give and I figured that if I just gave myself a break from my contacts, everything would be fine. Unfortunately, I have always been a die-hard contacts wearer, to the point where I have not updated my glasses prescription since I was 12. And while 12-year-old me didn’t have bad taste in frames, she did have better vision, and these lenses didn’t quite do the trick...

Author: By Elizabeth C. Pezza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Attack of Captain Red Eye | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

...Martino’s biggest saves came at a crucial point for Harvard, preserving the home team’s momentum heading into halftime...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Finishes Season With Win | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

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