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Since your minds are all preoccupied with dreamy or violent thoughts of Cupid—or you have reached the state of desperation where you are actually contemplating contacting your Datamatch partners—how could I resist the temptation to add yet another rumination to the infinite pile of theories about the peculiar enigma of Harvard love-life...

Author: By Robert J. Fenster, DIAGNOSIS | Title: Something to Talk About | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

...Abubakar: Muslims will resist until death. The U.S. attacked Afghanistan not just because they were after Osama bin Laden but because they wanted to weaken the Muslims there and to get oil from the Caspian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under Fire | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...final step for approval is now the Cambridge City Council, which should rethink its opposition to the project because of the tangible benefits it will bring to the area. We look to the council to follow the example of the planning board to resist the temptation to pander to parochial interests...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: The Tunnel of Turmoil | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...same legislative session. Now, with this newfound coalition in the House and with a Democratic majority in the Senate, Rep. Martin T. Meehan (D-Mass.) and Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) finally have their chance to push this legislation through Congress. As they do, they should resist as many amendments as possible to stay true to the McCain-Feingold bill—the Senate version—and thereby protect it from entering a conference committee, where it may never again see the light...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A Hard Line on Soft Money | 2/8/2002 | See Source »

...with it"--that an actual punk would sooner safety pin her brain than utter. Occasionally, '80s hints that it wants to be subtler and smarter than it is; it acknowledges, for instance, that by 1984 Tuesday's look is years out of date, as if the writers couldn't resist the predictable hair joke but felt a little embarrassed about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: From Sweet Memories To A Bonfire Of Inanities | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

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