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Harvard, for whatever reason, schedules its spring break at a time when every other college in America has already had its vacation and is back in session. Even a school like Princeton, with an academic calendar similar to Harvard’s, holds its vacation earlier. There’s no real practical reason for having spring break so late. Hotels and airfare cost the same; the weather is not improved...
...Presidential press conference had the feel of a therapy session but without the subtlety. "Would you not feel so much better," George W. Bush was repeatedly asked in so many words, "admitting to us the sheer folly of your disastrous policies?" Of course, in demanding a confession, the press corps was seeking catharsis not for the President/patient but for itself, hungry for the satisfaction of puncturing the stubborn certainty of this utterly determined war President...
...addition to the speakers, the conference featured an information session on the Democratic National Convention and a campaign training workshop entitled “Campaigning...
...ears perked up when I heard many of my first-year friends running for the board on a platform that promised to encourage more participation from Americans. I was secretly thrilled. Maybe we all felt a common lack of fulfillment, I thought to myself. But during the question session, one of the departing board members—a senior veteran of Woodbridge—asked the candidates a question that I thought produced the most telling answers. Innocuously enough, it asked them to describe how they saw Woodbridge 10 years later. Most of the candidates saw a larger, more vibrant...
...Slump, there are some promising home remedies. Beer is one treatment. And drinking with other people is even better. Dialogue with other sophomores about shared frustrations often produces a striking common ground. Results are best with a group discussion, kind of like a Sophomore Slump section. A typical session contains several sentences by each sophomore beginning with the phrase “I hate…” and ending with a chorus of the rest...