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...filled up on food, as a half dozen dining hall employees enjoyed some downtime before the dinner rush. Thayer resident Jennifer M. DeCoste ’09 said her 4:30 p.m. dinner would be her “last food of the day,” an inconceivable prospect for most students. “Sometimes I steal an apple [for later],” she said. “Well, not steal—Annenburglary.” DeCoste said early dinner provided an escape from the typical Annenberg social melee. “I don?...
...afflicted with asthma cheered the advance. “As an asthmatic, it’s frustrating to always be trying to treat the symptoms of the disease,” says Talya J. Brettler ’08. “I’m excited about the prospect of a cure...
Editor’s note: Former Harvard hurler Frank Herrmann ’06, a prospect with the Cleveland Indians, reported to camp in Winter Haven, Fla., in early March. This is his diary. Things are starting to heat up down here in Winter Haven as we approach the unofficial halfway point. Until recently, spring training had been light and cordial, full of “get to know you” meetings and explanations of what was to be expected. Now, it’s no longer the 80-degree days that are making players sweat but the fact...
...much. Optimists give it 30 years, pessimists say five or 10. For a while in the 1970s the U.S. got serious, sort of, about energy conservation. Then it switched paths, driving an SUV right down the new one. Iraq, which nationalized its oil fields in the '70s, offered the prospect of a state with sizable reserves. For years American oil companies had their eyes on them. Then George W. Bush came to the White House ready for any opportunity to invade. Sept. 11 provided the opening...
...when the opening came, Phillips says, Bush was ensured a cheering section from those elements of the Christian right fascinated by "end times" theology--the belief in Christ's imminent return, and the prospect of Armageddon beginning in the Middle East--popularized in brimstone best sellers like Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins' Left Behind novels. Phillips is convinced that many Americans underestimate the power of that idea among large parts of the electorate. For him, the G.O.P. has become the first religious party in American history, with a predictable effect on the White House policies on global AIDS, the teaching...