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Malcolm Gladwell, a contributor to The New Yorker and an avowed hater of the Ivy League, argued for abolishment to raucous applause. Aligning the Ivy League with the Bush administration’s abhorrent foreign policy, Gladwell impugned Harvard, Princeton, and Yale as an “axis of evil.” His recommendation for dealing with these “fetishized institutions of elitism that stifle social mobility and hurt the less fortunate”? Abolish the Ivy League wholesale, and appropriate their financial assets to purchase his homeland of Canada...
...Inside the expo center, the crowds were raucous, and empty pizza boxes, peanut shells and paper cups littered the floor, so the 25 members of Precinct 110 decided to caucus outside in a cavernous, covered delivery area behind the stage. By 1 p.m. Precinct 110 was embroiled in what would be an almost two-hour discussion on how they would conduct their delegate vote. Party rules prohibit secret ballots, and the group had decided to vote by writing their choice for a state convention delegate on a sheet next to the voter's name. But the sheet - drawn...
When I was an undergraduate in 1980, the raging dispute among my classmates—the one that produced loud, raucous, and well-organized protests involving hundreds of students marching across Harvard Yard—was the attempt of the University Dining Services to do away with “hot” breakfasts. I remember the parade of angry students, chanting “We want it hot”—an event that caused alumni from the 1970s to shake their heads in dismay at our lack of serious political activism...
...will make for exciting basketball, some postseason intrigue is lost by virtue of the fact that these three teams know each other quite well. Just 13 days ago Harvard catapulted over then-first-place Cornell in the Ivy standings with a thrilling three-point victory in front of a raucous Lavietes Pavilion crowd. That night in Cambridge, the Big Red was without star forward and Ivy Player of the Year Jeomi Maduka, who was competing in the league championships in track and field. Cornell will have her back this time around, and Maduka gave the Crimson forwards fits en route...
...They had the place packed and rockin’ and their team fed off that and away it went.” Normally known for its intense hockey crowds where dead fish is thrown onto Harvard hockey players during lineup introductions, the Big Red basketball faithful were raucous and loud the whole way though, cheering for its home squad while jeering the Crimson players. Every time that Harvard sophomore Jeremy Lin touched the ball, for example, chants of “Air ball!” were heard throughout the arena, referring to some errant misses by Harvard?...