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...quest for fame reaches an early, flickering peak when 50 freshmen of whom no one but a few old-school friends have ever heard vie for the votes of an apathetic class to make the Union or Jubilee committees. An astonishingly large percentage of each class cannot tell you who the current football captain is, and at least an equally large percentage do not know the difference between a Junior Fellow and a University Professor. It is easy for a student merely to let himself drift here because of one great distinction that separates the University from the average American...
...virtually all Massachusetts residents. It is an experiment that requires everyone, including the government, businesses, health care providers, and individuals to share responsibility. During debate on the bill, thousands of people, from union workers to senior citizens, held rallies and meetings in support of broad reform. I can tell you firsthand that the resulting legislation reflected their input. By contrast, the federal government’s reform of Medicare prescription drug coverage in 2003 was far removed from those whom it actually affected...
Such vestiges of past parties aside, Fok said that the most of rooms her crew cleaned had been cleared-out sufficiently by their previous occupants. In general, Fok said, “you could tell that people took time to clean out their stuff before they moved...
...win” in 1968, the purported strangling of real bulldogs by Harvard coaches, the Crimson’s first of six national championships 116 years ago.Its reputation had preceded it—the action on the field had begun to gain a secondary relevance.Apparently, someone forgot to tell that to the 2005 Harvard football team.In a series that had offered everything imaginable since its inception in 1875, the now-annual year-end football game between Harvard and Yale achieved new heights in 2005. It lived up to its nickname: “The Game.”The Game...
...through the maze of music, drag queens, and flying candy that is the freshman activities fair, the vast expanse of Harvard extracurricular life was laid out before me. Publications were being shoved in my face, upperclassmen were begging me for my e-mail address, and each group wanted to tell me why their club was what would define my next four years. Of all of the myriad options there was one area I avoided like the plague—the corner of Harvard Yard with the Institute of Politics, Dems, Republicans, and any other group committed to political engagement...