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Another factor that hindered the Harvard’s pursuit of the crown was the tournament’s format, a grueling 54-hole competition requiring two consecutive 27-hole days of golf on Saturday and Sunday...
...tough game, but they are ready: For 25 rehearsals, the group has toiled in the Cabot dance studio, according to Albert J. “Kaptain Korea” Lim ’04, and they’ve perfected their turns, jumps and sways in pursuit of bubble gum greatness...
...hand, I’ve realized that I need a more feasible dream job. So, I’ve recently been thinking long and hard about what I want to be when I grow up—and I believe I’ve finally settled on the pursuit that best balances the key criteria of any truly noble and worthy fantasy profession. This career provides comfortable pay, a reasonable amount of fame, a ridiculously low level of difficulty, requires little or no prior experience and places one in close proximity to attractive women who are willing to overlook...
This time of year in Japan, sake drinking becomes a national pursuit. As the ubiquitous cherry blossoms briefly turn the country pink, clusters of friends and relatives converge to claim squares of picnic space beneath the trees. They admire the blooms, sing songs and devour delicacies, but mostly they get uproariously drunk on cup after cup of sake...
...rather than simply know about—their particular passions. It seems somehow a loss that part of the cost of growing up, of becoming a more complete human being, should be that we become more discrete, less impressionable, less generous individuals—that in the pursuit of our best selves, we should be liable of discovering our worst...