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While the lightweights haven’t enjoyed the recent success of their heavyweight counterparts, rowing in front of an enormous crowd on their home course could be the right ingredient to spur Harvard on to success...
...first-years to Houses, but they are preferable to arbitrarily consigning denizens of, say, Stoughton Hall to the Quad. The specter of forming blocking groups often goads reclusive first-years into engaging in more socializing than they might otherwise do during their first months at the College. Such a spur can be only a good thing for the social health of the campus. Conversely, much of the community of the Yard would be lost by moving to a plan like Yale’s. Because Harvard first-years have no House affiliation, only an affiliation to their class, they have...
...wrong course to take; war is always dangerous but sometimes necessary. Still, when such fundamental issues are at stake, Congress and the American people ought to more closely consider the consequences of the action Bush proposes to undertake. Just yesterday, the CIA warned that invading Iraq could spur Hussein to encourage terrorist attacks against the United States, raising new questions about the wisdom of backing the Iraqi leader into a corner...
...school team for six years, Maasdorp could predict her teammates’ next moves, not by a set game plan but through knowledge of their natural strategy. Acclimation to Harvard has presented the dual challenges of a new team and a more fixed movement than the “spur-of-the-moment” Zimbabwean approach...
...suffering this way. And I'm grateful she was given that chance." So far no formal complaints have been filed against Dignitas by relatives or governments of countries where assisted suicide is illegal. But some in Switzerland are voicing concern that the organization's activities could spur the growth of a "death industry." And other groups offering assisted suicide to foreigners are reportedly already springing up in Zurich. "If this continues, Switzerland could become known as a suicide country," warns Andreas Brunner, Zurich's chief public prosecutor, whose job it is to keep an eye on Dignitas' activities and make...