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...part of me and, laughing, said, “You’ll always be a Cram”—not fully Harvard Crimson, and not fully a Fordham Ram. I remember this remark because my relation with each school has been the source of a slight split in allegiance to each, and in turn, a struggle to find my own identity in college. Just like both institutions, I found my true colors in athletics. One of Harvard’s dirty little secrets is the source of its color, crimson. The story with which most Harvard students...
...variety of ideological and strategic directions even as the G.O.P. was faltering. At a time when Democratic House candidates are finding that spending restraint resonates among voters and are running on fiscal discipline, many Democrats continue to support the President's deficit spending. Democrats were so split over Iraq that House minority leader Nancy Pelosi couldn't settle on any national leader to give the party's response to President George W. Bush's State of the Union address last winter. She instead turned to a brand-new Governor, Tim Kaine of Virginia, who was better known for his views...
...entertain women in the Houses met flat rejection by the Faculty Administrative Board the day before.1/19: Yale beats Harvard football, 21-7. A week later, the Medical School receives grant of million dollars in unrestricted finds from the Commonwealth Fund.12/1: Dunster wins the first inter-house debate as judges split on verdict. Sanitary engineers begin with an investigation today to determine the cause of a minor epidemic of intestinal disturbance.12/2: The union closes to freshman following a fire causing $15,000 in damages. The business school raises tuition by $200 in 1956, the money is for an increase in faculty...
MANY ADOPTED TEENS ARE TORN BY SPLIT allegiances to their birth and adoptive families. A tall, bubbly 16-year-old who plays drums and dreams of being a pilot or neurophysicist, Lamar Stapleton says being in foster care "taught me a lot about life. When push comes to shove, you've only got yourself and your family." And by family, he means his birth family. In November, Lamar and his younger sister Nasia, 14, were adopted by Shirley Williams, 61, a single parent in New York City's Harlem who had already raised five of her own children...
...split within the security forces deepened on May 22, when rebel soldiers in the hills above Dili were joined by the head of the military police, Lieutenant Commander Alfredo Reinado, and 28 of his men. Reinado tells Time that the second in command of the nation's armed forces, Colonel Lere Anan Timur, summoned Reinado to his headquarters at Tasi Tolu, on the city's western outskirts. The two men traveled to the airport, where a tense meeting took place with Defense Minister Roques Rodrigues. "I heard the Colonel say: "I can destroy them all and rebuild again tomorrow,'' Reinado...