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...Pirandellian-like staging"? "Shakespearian-like dialogue"? Does this strike you as amateurish-like ineptitude? I am unfamiliar with The Crimson's comp process for its arts staff, but surely the most prestigious college daily in the country must be able to procure writers with a better grasp of basic written English prose. These enormous gaffes almost distract the careful and intelligent reader from other, comparatively minor affronts to the English language, such as the unfortunate mixed metaphor "drowning out dramatic content...
...Current on the unfamiliar river also threw Radcliffe a little off course. Though Radcliffe never let the other crews creep too close, the Radcliffe boats themselves has a tendency to creep directly towards their opponents. The water was deceptively calm, hiding a coxswaim's nightmare of a cross-current...
...uniquely troubling aspect of these trials is that many of the subjects in Africa, and elsewhere in the Third World, are unfamiliar with the ways of Western medicine and may not fully comprehend the risks of participating. Explains Dr. David Heymann, chief of the research office at the WHO Global Program on AIDS: "It is vital that African volunteers understand that they are getting an experimental product that might not work." Without such "informed consent," doctors cannot in good conscience carry out their research, and may face charges that they are using people as guinea pigs. "The problem," concluded...
...Crimson is fairly unfamiliar with its opponents because none come from the New England region. But Harvard knows two of the squads on the schedule, from when they played each other last year in the sunshine state...
...five years of age, and 70 percent will be extroverted as adults. Kagan said that the behavioral consistency of uninhibited children was due to a lack of intervention on the part of their parents. While parents of shy children place them in therapy that gradually desensitizes them to unfamiliar stimuli, the parents of bold children do not give them similar attention...