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Contrary to popular opinion, final club members are sensitive to the way other Harvard students feel about the issue of admitting to the clubs. Believe it or not, final club members are not all sexist men intent on continuing a tradition merely for the sake of doing so. Final club members are also progressive thinkers who are actively involved in and concerned about life at Harvard...
...sake of this poem, I guess I'll just list some...
...most seniority to win seats on the popular committees, and Kennedy was completely out of line to try for a spot which the more senior Atkins properly deserved. The fact that Joe jeopardized his state's seat on one of the most powerful panels in Washington for the sake of his own political aggrandizement indicates that he suffers from the worst kind of Kennedyitis--a swelling of the ego which hurts constituents...
Labor's young guard would prefer to go into opposition and let voters experience a right-wing religious government. But Peres and Rabin are not eager to relinquish power for the sake of ideology. For Peres the personal element is very strong: banishment to the opposition could prove fatal to his political career. For Shamir the price could be no less high. If he fulfills the promise he made to the ultra-Orthodox, he risks making enemies of America's 6 million Jews...
Harvard, that ol' bastion of intellectualism, says it does not engage in that sort of thing. Harvard does admit to giving preference in admissions to athletes--something people here never seem to question--not for the sake of big-time sports (or organized barbarism, as some would say), but for diversity and the Greco-Roman ideal...