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...have the highest respect for the extracurriculars here at Harvard and acknowledge that participation by students in them is an essential part of their educations. Yet to resist curricular reforms because of the impact on extracurriculars is to have the tail wag the dog. Harvard's world-class reputation is not built on its extracurricular activities, however wonderful some of them may be. Nor, I suspect, do most students come here because of them. In considering curricular reform we must leave students time for a life, but we must also demand that they be students first and athletes, musicians, debaters...
Within half an hour, the plane was covered with a tarpaulin, like a shroud. Only its red-white-and-blue tail peeked out from beneath the covering. Soon the people of Cheyenne began to visit the crash site, leaving poems, flowers and stuffed animals. Two investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board were at the scene within a few hours. The plane did not have a flight recorder, nor was it required to have one. Steve McCreary, an ntsb investigator, could not say whether Reid had declared some sort of emergency before the crash...
...well--as long as they have realistic expectations. Hyakutake is as bright as a bright star overall, but its light is diluted over an area twice the size of the full moon; it's a glowing blob rather than a fiery point. There won't be much of a tail at first, but one will grow over the next few weeks, making the comet even more prominent through April. And after it fades from view later in the spring, comet lovers have a treat to look forward to next year: a second new comet, called Hale-Bopp. Astronomers are predicting...
While a great work ethic is always the rule, said senior Matthew Moeser, "this was our best winter of training." Such preparation, when combined with the team's success during Head of the Charles and Tail of the Charles races last fall, certainly bodes well for the team's prospects this spring...
...time one of our opponents spelled 'empennage' (the tail of an aircraft) as 'appendage,'" he said. "They had to give it to them because of the sound system...