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...refer to ourselves as a veteran team, and it’s funny to say that when the majority is underclassmen,” Finelli says, underscoring the fast learning curves of Berry and Rowland...
...freshmen and sophomores] are doing a great job,” Finelli says. “It’s funny, because we refer to ourselves as a veteran team when the majority is underclassmen. They’re doing a great job to understand the system, really stepping up and playing outside of themselves. Each person now sees herself as having an integral role in our team, taking pride in that, and trying to do the best they...
...veritable cultural force, a Monday night event, a dictator of trends, and, some say, a harbinger of the apocalypse. I refer, of course, to that singular bane of male existence, “Gossip Girl.” Since making the jump to the small screen last fall, Cecily von Ziegesar’s series of novels has ensnared a whole new audience in its pernicious spell. But it seems that “Gossip Girl” (or, at least, “Gossip Girl” copycatting) has decided to re-infect the literary world. A number...
...Undergraduate Education is presently engaged in a transition of great consequence. The fundamental structure of our core academic program is in flux. The very organization of our undergraduate education may be overhauled. Nothing, we imagine, could possibly be more demanding of the Committee’s time. We refer, of course, to their proposal to increase the time awarded students for travel between classes—assuming, of course, that someone bothers to create more courses that actually count toward General Education. “Harvard time”—the colloquial name given our unofficial seven-minute...
...While Obama's Muslim background and middle name, Hussein, had provided fodder for his enemies in the U.S., here in Tehran, people refer to the Democrat endearingly as Hussein Agha or Mr. Hussein (in the Shi'ite Muslim tradition, Hussein is the name of the most beloved imam, the ultimate symbol of an underdog fighting against injustice...