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...before going their separate ways, seniors are cherishing their last two weeks together as carefree college students without the burden of studies or work. After four years, the seemingly neverending rush of classes, jobs, extracurriculars and applications that is Harvard life is finally over, leaving seniors precious little time, in between class events like the Booze Cruise and the Last Chance Dance, to take...
...there’s nothing more precious or important than [family],” he says. “And in fact, I think that your children end up teaching you the most things...
...PHILIP believes his son, PRINCE CHARLES, is a poor excuse for a future King. A lengthy profile in the Daily Telegraph hailed Philip as a "man of great depth and complexity, by far the most intelligent member of the royal family"; it also revealed that Philip believes Charles is "precious, extravagant and lacking in the dedication and discipline he will need" to be a good King. Philip is not quoted directly, but the status of those authorized by Philip to speak caused Charles to allow his own sources of status to hint that Charles has stopped writing a tribute...
Head injuries and strokes are not the only culprits that can damage our precious brain reserves. I wonder if those drug experiments of years past might actually have taken something very important away from people's brains. Boomers may find some solace in their assertions that they "didn't inhale," but maybe they just don't remember anymore. DORIS HINDRICHS Lynden...
...women were sexually assaulted by drunken pilots. Since then, the Navy has pushed hard to put women aboard nearly all of its vessels except for submarines. Last year, the first female skipper took a U.S. Navy warship on a real-world mission to the Persian Gulf. But suggestions that precious Navy funds are going toward more frequent doctors' visits by female sailors will raise anew questions about the wisdom of putting women aboard ships, some Navy officers fear...