Word: socially
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Many myths and stereotypes frequently circulate about the nature of the Harvard Rugby Club, most notably the notion that it is primarily a social organization which does not require a serious athletic commitment. As a fourth-year rugby player, I can tell you that this is simply not true...
...social functions help to perpetuate our success on the field by serving as alumni fundraisers, which help defray the costs of coaching, equipment and transportation during the season. In addition, they help us to maintain our cohesion as a team, but obviously far less so than determination and hard work in practice...
...unfortunate, therefore, that your recent coverage of rugby has focused on the negative and disregarded many of the positive aspects of our season. While our tremendously exciting New England Championship was relegated to several paragraphs on page 10, an anonymous person's misperception of one of our social events gained front-page headlines...
...sorrowfully, that Vanderbilt and his colleagues in stiff-collar crime like Jay Gould would not find themselves out of place on Drexel Burnham Lambert's Wall Street. Still, the author can find it in his heart to suggest that the commodore's coarseness may have been caused by social insecurity...
Reagan never attempted a social transformation of America of this magnitude. That is partly because it wasn't necessary, but partly because he lacked Thatcher's principled determination. Thatcher's biographer Hugo Young says her greatest gift is "inspirational certainty." Reagan had inspirational certainty too, but of a different sort. His inspirational certainty was oblivious to reality, allowing him to call for a balanced budget through eight consecutive years of failing to propose one. Her inspirational certainty is oblivious to popularity, allowing her to produce a government budget that's actually in large surplus. Fiscal policy is one area...