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...runner-up Maine in overtime, 4-3. Almost everyone on this year’s roster will be back next season as Harvard circles the wagons and makes a run at the national championship. Add an entirely new freshman class to a team already stocked with eight NHL draftees, stir and voila: you’ve got one of the most talented squads in the nation...
Wednesday is May Day - or Labor Day - when much of Europe takes a holiday, and the left takes to the streets. This year's big demonstrations promise to stir up deep ideological passions, about everything from immigration to Third World debt to free speech. In Paris, opponents of surprise presidential runner-up Jean-Marie Le Pen plan to confront the far-right nationalist as he leads his annual march in honor of Joan of Arc. Meanwhile, Londoners are braced for a rematch, complete with footballs, between globalization foes and the police who penned them in at Oxford Circus last year...
After creating a stir last October by declaring that three student groups would have to vacate their Thayer basement offices, Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth ’71 has still not ordered the groups...
...lessons of moral philosophy comprise a different kind of stimulant, one that can stir us to better ways of thinking and living. And some of the more practical lessons derived from moral philosophy are distilled into the maxims that we hear throughout our childhood. The problem is that neither philosophical inquiry nor sterile maxims are effective at delivering their messages in easily digestible ways. Tell an impatient driver that “patience is a virtue” and you’re likely to get some road rage upside your head...
...Pentagon officials that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf wasn't keen on letting U.S. troops charge across the border. He reportedly told the Administration that such a move could further inflame the Pashtun tribes in the border area--who already sympathize with their Taliban clansmen--and that it could stir up militants elsewhere in the country...