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What Thompson saw as the cultural disassociation of the traditional Derby from its contemporary setting has now become an economic disjuncture as well. Two years ago a yearling, completely untrained and untried, was sold for--no, I'm not fibbing--$10.2 million at the annual Select Yearling Sale at Keeneland Racetrack in Lexington, breaking all known records...
Second, you'll soon realize that ice cream is a big dealing on The Cape. Besides the jillions of soft-serv places dispensing chilled liquid linoleum, there are a select few spots that--in price, generosity and yumminess--put Steve's and Herrell's to shame. The best shop on The Cape is on 6A in Dennis village: The Ice Cream Smuggler, where the Oreo is flush with cookies and the Moch.. Chip and Chocolate Chocolate Almond will drive you wild.11Fishing on Colorado's Red Feather Lakes...
...other governing body, the 30-member Board of Overseers. Members of the Overseers are elected by alumni to six-year terms Technically, according to the complex statute governing the relationship between the Overseers and Corporation, the Overseers maintain control over the Corporation and must give it permission to select its new members...
While this example may seem irrelevant to Harvard pre-med students, who can feel fairly secure about their chances of getting into medical school, they must remember that once they enter the select medical community they face obligations other than practicing medicine. And among these, one of the most important is to improve the overall state of their profession...
Moreover, the Houses' ingrained institutional characters--jocky, wonky, artsy, prephead--are not going to go away as long as the preference-based system lets students live with the folks they choose. Or, as is more often the case these days, select their House as a way to avoid stereotypes they fear and loathe...