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...speaker. Consider the possibility that the General might be able to enlighten most of the Harvard community (especially those who consider themselves the sole proprietors of oppression) with regards to the subject of clawing your way to success while overcoming every possible obstacle. After all, if we succumb to knee-jerk, P.C. condemnation of General Powell, we will indeed be practicing the one thing we all claim to abhor: intolerance. Jon-Peter Kelly...
Many who are cynics about the Clinton presidency and its agenda seem to think they deserve some sort of prize for their refusal to succumb to hope, as if this were a particularly brave or difficult trick to pull off. In fact, there's nothing easier than maintaining a cynical, opposition stance. After all these years, we liberals can do that in our sleep...
...past two years, three other conditions, including a form of muscular dystrophy, have been traced to such hereditary hiccups. With the Huntington's gene in hand, researchers can now develop more accurate diagnostic tests. They may also prove better able to predict at what age a person will succumb to the disease...
...second game, with nemesis Brown, turned out to be a classic defensive struggle. Harvard goalie Danny Oakes and Brown netminder Kevin Neumann refused to succumb to both sides' offensive pressure...
Many forecasters seem to succumb to either excessive optimism or overheated pessimism. The overoptimists are heirs to the Golden Age of wishful thinking in the 19th century, when conventional wisdom foresaw ever greater prosperity and ease. Jules Verne invented science fiction in the 1860s with his tales of space flight and submarine voyage, and the American Edward Bellamy, in his widely read 1888 novel Looking Backward, imagined Boston around the year 2000 as a genteel Utopia where everyone enjoys equal pay and crime has all but disappeared...