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...comp" seemed like an evil concept before I arrived at Harvard. It was described in those Fiske-esque, ultimate-insider guides to college as the embodiment of typical Harvardian ruthlessness. Harvard: so high-powered, so many superstars, that there's not only cutthroat, steal-the-books-from-the-library-and-hide-them-und er-your-pillow competition in academics--but you've got to fight for your right to join extracurriculars as well. Scary stuff...
...agency and the CIA. "One standard of C.I.S. conduct should be a stand-down on intelligence gathering," argues Paul Joyal, a former U.S. Senate intelligence committee staff member who now heads Integer, an information-security consulting firm. "We can't be expected to invite them to dinner if they steal the silverware...
More so than any other squad clad in Crimson, this Harvard team produced a balanced effort from which any one of several players could step up and steal the game. Women's lacrosse demonstrated the depth and balance that marks a national-caliber squad...
...like the world beyond the Hudson River in the famous Saul Steinberg poster about New York City. It hardly exists. Adoption is an option, of course, but that is not the way of some baby boomers. They want happiness now -- on their own terms -- and if they have to steal from the next generation to have it, they will...
...down the street trying not to scrape her new, no-down-payment dining room table on the pavement; another lady attempting to jam her stolen sofa onto a pickup truck already overladen with loot. Modern America's great guiding principle, shop till you drop, was in process of revision; steal till you kneel was more like...