Word: summers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...response also gave me a unique burden to bear this summer. Off to DC and miles away from The Crimson's fortress where students for-sake Friday night gatherings to take surveys and write articles about the inept social scene, my excuse no longer applied. I was heading to a land where five o'clock meant the start of happy hour, not the deadline for a problem set, to a land where well built frat boys had to wear suits and ties, to a land where the interns roamed free (and you know what they say about interns...
...weren't for the boxes I'd have skipped off the elevator. This was something that would never happen at Harvard. My summer of free love was about to begin. Or so I thought...
...rest of my summer hasn't been much different. The more I've forced myself to socialize with brawny jocks from state institutions, the kind of men girls say they wish went to Harvard, the more I've missed what I had all year. Good conversation. Quirky intellectualism. The kind of guys you love as friends...
...crash, other than that the problem was severe, and the plane was out of control. To TIME aviation correspondent Jerry Hannifin, that final plummet is a sign that the pilot simply took on more than he was qualified for. "Anyone who has flown regularly on the East Coast in summer knows that the horizon can disappear completely in the haze," says Hannifin. One scenario: Kennedy began a normal turn, and then lost sight of the horizon. If he made the turn too tight, he could have lost lift. From there it would be straight down, and fast. "The poor...
...Americans bask by the ocean this summer, they might consider the latest candidate for extinction: the beach beneath them. Dean exhaustively documents the ways in which coastal development threatens the very amenity that has caused a trillion-dollar land rush to the shores since World War II. Seawalls, jetties and other technologies aimed at protecting waterfront property only accelerate the loss of sand or starve nearby beaches. Unless politicians end the absurd subsidies that encourage development on shifting sands, Dean powerfully argues, America may face a future of beachless beach towns...