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...years. Waiting until April to begin to tackle the calendar will waste valuable time. And packaging calendar reform with the gigantic task of reforming Harvard’s broken mental healthcare system—and trying to fit it into a single month—will require a superhuman effort. Far better to do a few things well, we think, than do many things poorly.The UC’s top priorities this year should be CUE evaluations, calendar reform, and adapting the general education system for current students, all timely reforms that will help students tremendously.Petersen and Sundquist are right...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Assessing an Agenda | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

...succumb to pain or injuries inflicted by fellow humans - they are also heroes. Hans D. Chi Zurich Afrobeat musician and political activist Fela Kuti was one of only two Nigerians included in your list (the other was novelist Chinua Achebe), and this distinction was no mean achievement. Fela's superhuman energy, his wild and wicked sense of humor and his rebellious attitude revealed a man who refused to let go of his youthful, rebellious spirit throughout his entire life. Your story said he was "an outspoken teenager who never quite grew up." Who ever said that was a shortcoming? Tolulope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outstanding European Individuals | 11/28/2006 | See Source »

Barring injury or a superhuman effort by the Penn defense or a natural disaster or him running backwards on the final play of the game so he can set the mark at home next weekend, Dawson will break the 35-year old standard on Saturday. He stands just 53 yards shy of Ed Marinaro’s total of 4,715, established at Cornell from...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rushing Record On Tap In Philly | 11/9/2006 | See Source »

...since Chu’s goal is to reach the heights of the tennis world, he will have to rely on grit and desire to compensate for his less-than-superhuman athletic abilities. If history is any indicator, though, grit might as well be Chu’s middle name...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Circling the Globe For a Tennis Dream | 11/1/2006 | See Source »

...DIED. Leonid Hambro, 86, brilliant concert pianist with a superhuman memory; in New York City. He dazzled with a 1952 performance at New York City's Town Hall, for which he had to learn complex works in less than a day. But the Julliard alum found broadest appeal as the straight man to funnyman-pianist Victor Borge, with whom he performed for 10 years, starting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

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