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Harvard finished the season with a winning record, and although the dual meets of February did not go as well as the Crimson would have liked, the scores don't do justice to the close battles it had with Penn, Cornell and Brown-all of which could have swung the other...
History is no guide. Nations are not some natural, organic phenomenon but complex accumulations of strength, alliances and enmities. And the passion for nationhood has swung between eras of consolidation and fragmentation: the single-state world of the Roman Empire; the 500-odd nations of the 1500s Renaissance. In the post-cold war age, people impatient with the map they've inherited appear to be caught in between. A globalized economy is melting down the relevance of nationhood at the same time that the dispossessed's unrealized yearnings to be a state are gaining legitimacy...
...This match was in best-of-five format, and the players were closely matched. Merrill came out strong with a 15-8 win in the first game, but Seelbach battled back and won the second game 15-14. Merrill triumphed in the third game 15-12, and the match swung dramatically in his favor. By the fourth match, Seelbach was finished mentally and could only muster a weak six points, dropping the last game and the match...
This year, Gibbons wore a dog collar along with his boxers and was led around the reading room by Elizabeth Marks '99. Another co-op resident wore a garter belt, while a third swung his belt in the air like a lasso...
...many cells in the body don't allow the anti-sense molecules to cross their membranes. "Nine years ago, everyone thought, wow, this is dynamite," says Dr. Art Krieg, editor of the journal Anti-Sense and Nucleic Acid Drug Development. "Then they ran into technical hurdles, and the pendulum swung the other way." Now, says Krieg, a few anti-sense compounds are starting to show promise. Among them is a drug called Vitravene, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in August and is used to prevent blindness in AIDS patients infected with cytomegalovirus...