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...substitutions due to injury have left Harvard with different lineups, a move both boats credit to increased speed and improved rhythm in the weeks leading up to Sprints. “As much as it’s easy to look at rankings and times between races, the sheer number of changes and what can happen from beginning to end shows you that you can’t expect anything,” Medioli said. “Everything’s changed. We’ve got to go in with the excitement and the belief that we?...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Much to Prove for Crews at Eastern Sprints | 5/18/2006 | See Source »

...right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say.” (A.E.) Now one such might...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader’s Reply | 5/17/2006 | See Source »

...gibes.) But Bush's attempt to thread the needle-coming up with a bill that's tough enough to appease his conservative base and still containing enough of a guest worker program to make it look like a victory-seems difficult at this point because he lacks the sheer political muscle to sell the plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Bush's Compromise Strategy in the Border War | 5/16/2006 | See Source »

...senators and congressmen to be "petty politicians fighting for personal gain," (63%) "out of touch with what's going on in the country," (63%) and 41% believe that their own Congressman has taken a bribe. Of course, they are still electing them - perhaps as a way of rewarding their sheer stick-to-it-iveness and initiative. Being this corrupt, after all, must be hard work. Between the tabloid stories and the presumption of corruption, no wonder the popular stereotype is that of a tanned professional talker with $100 bills coming out of his pockets and gristle from a Charlie Palmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Congressmen Are Such Easy Marks | 5/12/2006 | See Source »

...baseball, a sport often reduced to sheer statistics, here was emotion. Here was Joe Walsh, sitting alone on the top bench of his dugout, arms crossed and head down...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SIDEBAR: Stunned Crimson deals with disappointment, loss as 2005 Ivy Championship becomes a distant memory | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

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