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...opportunities provided by the school.“I think Cambridge Rindge and Latin is a pretty unique experience in the fact that if you want to be challenged you have to challenge yourself,” he said, noting that there are a “ton of opportunities here and they lay it out for you; you just have to find it.”Some students attributed this disparity to a lack of communication between students and school officials during the early stages of implementing new programs.“I notice that when they ask someone?...
...partnership between Hufstedler and Veritas Records director James M. Rhodes ’06. As a freshman, Rhodes had attended a similar type of show at the House of Blues, the now-closed establishment whose space Tommy Doyle’s took over. “A ton of people came, and it was very successful,” Rhodes recalls of the event. Hufstedler and Rhodes have revived the competition, which had formerly been limited to Harvard bands, and expanded it to include rock groups from other colleges. Drawing both word of mouth and the ever-trusty Google...
...Mart, usually a 10-ton targetfor activists ranging from union organizers to antiglobalization protesters, found itself wearing a new label from some liberals last week: ally. After months of pressure from both sides of the abortion debate, Wal-Mart decided to stock the controversial emergency contraceptive Plan B, also known as the morning-after pill, in all its more than 3,700 pharmacies nationwide beginning March 20. The company has never publicly objected to the drug and says it chose not to carry Plan B because of low demand. But after being forced by Massachusetts and Illinois to stock...
...Bradman, the Chappells and other past players, reaching the ton was surely no less satisfying. Yet they managed to confine their celebrations to removing their cap and acknowledging, with a raising of their bat, the applause of the crowd. Today's leaping, fist-pumping performances - unleashed no matter what the state of play - are merely self-indulgent. When they follow upon the defeat of an opponent, they smack of triumphalism. The century-maker directs his attention first and foremost at his teammates. During this exchange of joy and gratitude, there might as well be no one else at the ground...
...Lausberg says that as a host of several large-scale parties, he is now warier of the hordes of freshmen who attend his parties. “We might get a little annoyed if it’s a ton of guys, but we haven’t been very strict about it,” he says. “If it’s a mixed group that’s great, and if it’s a bunch of girls, that’s even better...