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George Hicks makes a round of cruel and senseless comments about the homeless in Harvard Square. Beyond his ignorance on homelessness (which I won't address here), his contempt for obese people is downright disturbing. Hicks comfortably uses this woman's weight as a point of ridicule and a "fact" to disqualify her neediness. Hicks' snide confusion over an "obese beggar" demonstrates total ignorance about the nature of obesity and poverty. Hicks (an economics concentrator) is "missing something here." It's more expensive to be thin than fat in America today...
Yesterday afternoon, in the second round of the Stanford Invitational, Harvard faced a tougher opponent in the No. 20 UC-Berkeley Golden Bears. The Crimson had faced difficult competition before this year from former No. 1 Creighton and then No. 8 Yale. However, the young Crimson team appeared to be seriously overmatched against the Golden Bears...
Girth aside, lest you think I am some inhumane, round-up-the-homeless-and-put-'em-in-a-hole reactionary, let me point out that I am not at all averse to giving spare change to the homeless. Although there are times I wish they wouldn't resort to such maddening gestures like opening the door for me and expecting a "reward" for their efforts--as if my two arms had suddenly become nonfunctional and I would otherwise be unable to enter 7-Eleven to buy a box of Pop Tarts--the truth is that some people are just plain...
...Crimson (4-1-1, 2-0 Ivy) had all the motivation it needed with the memory of two losses to the Hawks (5-1-2) last year still fresh, including a 3-0 second round playoff defeat at Hartford...
...latter of the two victories sent Harvard home from the second round of the NCAA tournament and ended its season, leaving a bitter taste in the mouths of some Crimson players...