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...their desire to drink and above all, will not be disheartened—or draconian—when students continue to party hard, because they will. Instead, the committee should ensure that student health is jeopardized neither by state law nor by a prudish disdain for student habits. The pursuit of drunkenness, like it or not, is here to stay. But health crises that lead to tragedies like Scott Kruger’s, the MIT first-year who drank himself to death in 1997, can be avoided through the committee’s care and diligence...
...with pockets much deeper than the $2,000 cap on individual contributions, there is no other choice but to maximize Democratic spending ability. For the moment, Dean and Kerry are right to raise and spend as much as they can. Democrats can’t suspend their full-force pursuit of the White House in the name of public financing, even if it is a respectable and worthy ideal...
Throughout his stay at Harvard, Garcia has pulled a number of stunts in the pursuit of a laugh. He once replaced all of the footballs with nerf footballs, periodically rollerblades through the showers and once threw a pie right into the unsuspecting face of teammate Matt Fratto...
...felt even more so that all I wanted to do was play bass.” Though he was a member of the Bach Society Orchestra and the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra he felt that music was “too much of an extra-curricular pursuit, which I didn’t want it to be. I wanted it to be my main focus.” His course load echoed that sentiment: a music theory class, a chamber music class, a symphonic music history core, and German—no chemistry to be found...
...insurgents who are holding their own against the world's strongest army. And that will leave the U.S. forces shouldering the bulk of the counterinsurgency duties. But even many pro-U.S. Iraqi politicians appear to believe that the heavy U.S. presence in their cities, and their actions in pursuit of the insurgents, tend to amplify support for the insurgency. An escalation of fighting between U.S.-led forces and the insurgents could undermine the effort to build legitimacy for the political process building up to a hand-over. Which is why the insurgents can be expected to do whatever they...