Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moving towards more randomization in its housing policy, Harvard College has embarked on a perilous and unfortunate course. While the ideals of increasing diversity and reducing stress should guide every decision made by University officials, the new policy, which eliminates student agency in the housing process, will increase anxiety and turn diversity into a numbers games, devoid of true interaction and communication...
...administration feels that its previous policy, which allowed firstyear students to pick four Houses in which to live, placed unnecessary stress on undergraduates. They believe that housing concerns distracted frosh from spending adequate time pondering their field of concentration. Most first-year students, however, start thinking about their concentrations during shopping period of the second semester. The two or three weeks that the majority of frosh spend choosing four houses hardly cause students to make rash decisions about their concentrations...
...filmmakers stress that Panther is fiction; some of those who were there see it as flawed fact. "In part, Mario and his father have done a very good job of showing our history," says David Hilliard, former Panther chief of staff. "But the characterization of Bobby Seale being dominant over Huey Newton is certainly a reversal of history. Unfortunately, most of the people in the party leadership who could have helped are on my project." Hilliard, you see, is working with Seale on their own film for Warner Bros. These days Panther adversaries don't have shootouts, they have rival...
...soon learn that the Russian sub plot is a red herring. The real cold war is being waged between these two American officers. The real explosive device is inside Captain Ramsey's wayward head. And the film's real theme is executive stress. It's a charged debate among middle-management types agonizing over fuzzily transmitted orders from their boss, who happens to be the President...
...players do not overly stress the physical aspect of the game. Despite the fact that only mouth guards are worn in this full contact sport, they say that strategy and finesse is the most enjoyable part. This is especially true for Harvard, which is smaller than most teams it plays...