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...Then there is the sublime: For sheer diabolical genius (of the Hollywood variety), nothing came close to the reports that European security services are preparing to counter a Bin Laden attempt to assassinate President Bush at next month's G8 summit in Genoa, Italy. According to German intelligence sources, the plot involved Bin Laden paying German neo-Nazis to fly remote controlled-model aircraft packed with Semtex into the conference hall and blow the leaders of the industrialized world to smithereens. (Paging Jerry Bruckheimer?) The Russians, who believe a Bin Laden attack in Genoa is more likely to be carried...
...leading students to treat academics as merely some obstacle toward graduation. At other times, this attitude is based on a priority set that places academic coursework below social, extracurricular or athletic obligations. And, more often than we’d like to admit, this attitude is fueled by sheer laziness...
...though the University’s investments have at times been highly controversial, the sheer magnitude of the final product has caused much of that controversy to fall by the wayside...
...athletics. I only did so because I knew that hockey once served to unite the campus and could do so once again. As great as Harvard's 7-4 win over Yale in the playoffs this year was, the truly beautiful sight was the throng of students erupting in sheer elation over the team's feat...
Harvard's guts were never so apparent as when Witcher, Wing, and Brown launched furious comebacks to secure their victories. For other players, however, the afternoon was less about guts and more about sheer dominance. No. 2 Margaret Elias dominated All-American Janine Thompson in three games, and Wadhwa and Harmeling also cruised to victory...