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...bring your dog or cat. Harvard doesn't allow pets, so you will have to leave Fido or Fluffy at home. Be strong. Improvise. You could try to content yourself with the 300,000 too-tame gray squirrels in the Yard. Or you could just bring your loving teddy bear instead...
...business cycle, that economic beast from 20,000 fathoms, is poking up its head again. The rushing tides of the new economy kept it submerged for almost a decade, but they could not drown it for good. It lives! Only it now looks like a pretty tame beast. A little slower growth in U.S. production, a little more inflation before the slowdown takes effect, a bit more unemployment, eventually, maybe...that's about the worst damage that the cycle is expected to inflict. Unless...
...lurking dread, a ghost in the system. At the end of two semesters back, my hands ache, my days are filled with errands and I look with wan sadness at sunny days as I sit editing a paper. It was like being away taught me nothing about how to tame the competitive feeling that seems to be in the water here. I saw the limitations, pulling at me the first few weeks back--but somehow, they still dragged...
Fortunately she had a way to get their attention: by using Khayam as an ambassador. With the tame cheetah at her side, she toured the farmlands. "It was tough at first," she admits, "but the more the farmers learned about cheetahs, the more they listened." She told them that cattle are not the cheetah's favorite food; if the farmers kept antelope and other wild animals on their land, the cats would be more likely to leave the cattle alone. She gave farmers guard dogs to help keep cheetahs away...
...irony or humor. An observer of otters at mealtime (all day) might argue about the sense of humor. But it is certainly true that compared with the throbbing of insistent newness--city life--one's responses to the natural world, such as peace, awe and piety, are pretty tame...