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Most would not dispute the rude reputation of the ’74 and ’75 boats, and none would say they were anything but smooth. Harvard tacked unofficial national championships on to undefeated seasons in both years, building a legend that future crews would strive to mirror...
Rather than helping these women heal after an experience that has caused them such grief, abortion rights advocates strive to make the procedure easier to access. In proclaiming that a woman’s choice to have an abortion is a matter for her and her doctor to decide, they ignore that if the woman visits a clinic where abortions are performed, the doctor clearly has a financial interest in her choice: if she chooses to carry, he makes no money, but if she aborts, the clinic earns hundreds or thousands of dollars. Joy Davis, a former abortion provider...
...they visited. The European view of President Bush as a gun-slinging cowboy running roughshod over the international community was a convenient extension of that same stereotype. Now, of course, it is more important than ever that Americans disprove that perception of themselves. And Harvard students should, of course, strive to be in the vanguard of that offensive...
...intangible features of a successful college experience are not readily quantified no matter how many factors are ostensibly ‘weighed’ by the rankings’ authors. The lesson that The Atlantic Monthly wisely hits home is that when reading any college ranking, prospective students must strive to understand for themselves the characteristics that make each college unique when deciding which is the best fit for their needs...
...World Series champions in almost 75% of their seasons. Life is mostly losing. It's a series of imperfect essays full of jokes that don't quite work, of dreams that go unfulfilled, of passions that dwindle and ultimately, death. And if you don't figure out how to strive with the acceptance of guaranteed failure, how to find fulfillment in the eternal recurrence of imperfection, then you can have a brand-new stadium with a Ferris wheel, and no one is going to come. I'm rooting for the Tigers to win because they don't deserve to lose...