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...dozen mice at a brief sitting. Alarmingly, it tends to dawdle before administering the coup de grace. Behavioralists believe this happens because cats are programmed by a primitive, vestigial stalking mechanism. Cats toy with their prey because they may be teaching kittens to hunt or may be exhibiting their prowess; cats do not always relate killing with the need to eat. When they finally do away with a mouse, it is with Darwinian perfection. The cat's teeth are arranged to sever a rodent's spine with surgical precision. --TIME...
While Yale seems poised to win the great game of presidential politics this time, Harvard’s campus political gurus have urged the faithful to remain confident in Harvard’s political prowess...
...wants a British-style system, where academic test scores are all that matter. But colleges recognize musical talent, reward unique life experiences and the overcoming of adversity, and recently established a “compelling interest” in racial diversity at the Supreme Court. What, if anything, separates prowess on the playing field from talent on the trombone...
Students who were not likely to work their way up to the final round got a chance to demonstrate their trivia prowess in mock versions of the game staged in the lounge...
...more time. Rather than settle for a tie with Princeton atop the U.S. News rankings, Harvard needs to stand alone as the only number one school in the nation. By providing students with access to networks such as CNN and C-SPAN, the academic prowess of our school can be further enhanced...