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...even heard some dim wits on WEEI, Boston's wanna-be WFAN, refer to the Red Sox, with the fifth-highest payroll in baseball last year, in such terms...
...even heard some dim wits on WEEI, Boston's wanna-be WFAN, refer to the Red Sox, with the fifth-highest payroll in baseball last year, in such terms...
Public activism is only part of the story. The panoply of overused 90s buzz words--from "community action" to "political activism" to "service learning"--all refer to the same value. These words describe activities that reject the status quo (and the everlurking ambert). Many students here unconsciously harbor a rebellious nature, even while dining on fine china and staring into the grave eyes of John Adams, Class of 1754 or Charles Eliot, Class of 1853. In this every-other-week column, I will attempt to revive and unearth this modicum of resistance, buried within even the most apathetic Harvard student...
...become popular to refer to our unsuccessful youthful dalliances as "learning experiences." They are hardly so inconsequential. The people we meet now could be our best shots at true happiness. If, because for four years you were too lazy to attend to your studies, you were rejected from every medical school you applied to, would you call it a "learning experience?" No, you'd call it a tragic mistake with potentially catastrophic consequences for the rest of your life. If, especially at this young age, you've found one of the greats, don't let that wonderful, pristine coincidence fall...
...break, Pearlman, sensing an even vaster market, formed 'N Sync. Hurt by the sudden competition, Backstreet Boys sued Pearlman as well as their personal managers (who are allied with but independent of Trans Continental). Happily, the group settled out of court with Big Poppa, and members still graciously refer to him in interviews as "the sixth Backstreet...