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...reliving their youth.”On the academic side, Cheek is not worried about going back to school. He understands Byerly Hall’s concerns about how he would handle the workload, but he also insists that he has the inner drive and desire to succeed at any level.“I wouldn’t have applied if I couldn’t handle the workload,” Cheek says. “Even with speedskating, I was never the most talented athlete, but I’m very capable and very good at improving...
BERNARD KOUCHNER No, because of the way Americans went about it. I think it was up to the international community to pull together and get rid of Saddam for the Iraqi people. I have long argued for the "right to intervene." But you have to succeed. To do that, you need the international community standing with you. Saddam had been a major assassin in his country for 35 years. What difference would a few weeks have made? They should have done as we did in Kosovo, setting up a contact group and relying on international cooperation and peacekeepers...
...Trying to make Harvard into something it is not, and shouldn’t be—a tribe of perky people gushing—is a mistake. Harvard will always be on the unbearable side, because Harvard admits its students to be ambitious and to succeed, not to be happy. But the unbearable environment is glorious, because it is the counterpart to the atmosphere of achievement. The negatives must be accommodated. And take heart: someday, these trials will make you a much more interesting cocktail party guest. Lucy M. Caldwell ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, lives...
...knows that self-regulation is one way to keep the government from stepping in. What worries the food industry most are the lawsuits that have begun to move through the courts, often going where politicians fear to tread. One key question is whether public-health advocates will succeed in sticking the food industry with one of the charges that damned the tobacco business: that its executives knowingly harmed the health of the public--especially children--with their marketing tactics. Of course, Big Tobacco had the additional problem that its products are clearly addictive...
...program’s history. “I feel pretty happy to make All-American,” Ogunwole said. “Overall, I wrestled the best I could over the weekend.” That Ogunwole, the fifth ranked heavyweight entering the Championship, was expected to succeed does not detract from his effort to place. His path there was not an easy one. After losing his first match to Ohio State’s Kirk Nail, 4-3, on Thursday, Ogunwole had to win his next four matches Friday to secure All-America status. He dominated...