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...Memorial Hall, I looked up and saw the name of someone I knew quite well—someone whose papers I’d read, whose death I knew all about,” said Faust, who spoke beneath the seals of Harvard’s 11 schools that ring the Coop’s balcony...
...hungry Eagles team, MacDonald summed up the experience as follows: “I think there were more than a few times tonight where that wasn’t really our team out there.” Two months later, MacDonald’s words are finally starting to ring true. After suffering through a nine-game winless streak, the Crimson has now won three of its last four and is poised to capture its first Beanpot title since 1993. If this is indeed the true face of Harvard hockey, it couldn’t have shown...
...that these books don't ring true. They're just weirdly uninterested in how little of '60s protest culture involved violence and how much it actually did accomplish. You get the feeling that attacking idealists of the past--indeed, associating them with terrorism--is a backhanded way of excusing the miserable, apathetic state of political protest in the present. At least the hippies cared about something--even if it wasn't personal hygiene...
...dominant subject between the campaigns the last three weeks - and Clinton, too. Trying out a new slogan, Obama said Super Tuesday proved, "this time can be different." "What began as a whisper has now swelled to a chorus that cannot be ignored; that will not be deterred; that will ring out across this land as a hymn that will heal this nation, repair this world, and make this time different than all the rest." At least in his prose, Obama doesn't sound like an underdog...
...foreigners from as far away as the U.S. and U.K flying in for transplants, Indians are sadly all too familiar with organ rackets. In 2007, police in southern India uncovered an illegal kidney trade involving fishermen whose jobs had been destroyed by the Indian Ocean tsunami. A massive transplant ring in Punjab was also uncovered in 2003. Police there believe at least 30 of the donors, who as in this latest case were poor, illiterate workers promised riches for their organs and bused in to be operated on, died, despite promises that they would receive excellent post-operation medical care...