Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even the riders who do ride in shows find the team rewarding for other reasons as well. Some find it teaches them how to communicate better. Sia's co-captain Eric A. Reitman `99, explains the difficulty of getting the horses to know what you want them to do. He says that, "direct communication is, for the most part, impossible. We fall back on a vocabulary of reaction, we cajole, cater, condemn, threaten, punish, forgive, reward, take `face' and deal with egos and attitudes, just as one has to in a social situation with humans...
...other hand, Haynie says that she views riding as a stress relief--a rare commodity at Harvard. She has done very well this fall in the shows: she attributes her success to her relaxed attitude towards the horses. "I like to think of the horses as my friends, they are like people. They have personalities, and they have good days and bad days. You can't just hop on and push a button and go." So people who like steering wheels, smooth throttles or an easy ride should probably stick to a different sort of mustang and leave the rough...
...ings and queens who ride in large, open carriages with stern livery boys at their side, stone buildings covered in soot, ground beef served spicy and raw in sidewalk cafes, insane drivers who aim directly for tourists. This is Europe--at least as seen from the perspective of much of America, not excluding our cloistered campus. Many Harvard students, who usually swim valiantly upstream against the flow of conventional ideas, allow themselves to float comfortably along on the current of public opinion when it comes to the Old World...
...fellow Pfohosers, we cannot blame the FM editors for their ignorance. After all, they are only human. And just like the rest of us, they have deadlines to meet, things to see, people to do. They certainly don't have the time to take the three-minute shuttle ride to the Quad. I mean, they are so pressed for time that they couldn't even check the spelling of our house--or even realize that the picture of "Cabot House" was actually Moors Hall of Pforzheimer...
...your article "Parade of the Dead Babies" [WORLD, March 2]: We ride in with our white hats to save the world from Saddam and his "weapons of mass destruction," yet it is precisely our weapons and policies that have led to the suffering, destruction and death of millions of innocent Iraqi civilians. When did Iraqi lives become so expendable? Aren't we the country that touts the value of human life? Are we to believe that Iraq is the only country in the world developing chemical and biological weapons? Just what is our real agenda? DOUG WAGNER Beaverton...