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...helped me to recover what wits I had prior to my thesis-slavery. Hearing my complaints--as well as the more serious horror stories of my classmates--might make some underclassmen and women question why so many students would voluntarily subject themselves to such bondage. Are Harvard students so vain as to assume these burdens voluntarily in pursuit of more accolades with which to validate ourselves? Knowing the foibles of Harvard students, you might be tempted to answer in the affirmative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Real March Madness | 4/3/1996 | See Source »

...weapon and his greatest weakness in a battle with Clinton, had hardly anything to say when his top aides appeared Tuesday night in his ornate Senate office to tell him he had swept eight states and was on his way to the nomination he had sought twice before in vain. "Congratulations," Dole said to his campaign manager, Scott Reed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: SEE YOU IN NOVEMBER | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...Harvard psyche. We love to contemplate, if not believe in, the idea that the courses of our piddly lives are mapped in some metaphysical atlas. Besides, it's axiomatic that Harvard students love to be analyzed. We love to be the focus of any kind of attention. We're vain and probably undernoticed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Allure of Palmistry | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

Dartmouth gave its all throughout the final four minutes, spurred on by a foul line jumper from Gyvonne Pinkston and then a driving layup by freshman guard Nicci Rinaldi (team high 17 points) with only 27 seconds remaining, but it was in vain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Basketball Wins Thriller Versus Big Green, 85-78 in OT | 3/7/1996 | See Source »

Many white Southerners still deny the insidious nature of the St. Andrew's Cross, the rebel flag. A Southerner once tried to convince me that this flag represented "heritage, not hate," but the rebel flag undoubtedly stands for a "heritage of hate." Despite vain attempts by revisionist so-called scholars to color the Civil War as a primarily economic conflict, slavery was the primary cause of the war. Further-more, the Confederate flag was incorporated into the Georgia state flag in 1956 as a symbolic challenge to the desegragationist agendas of the civil rights movement and the federal government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Confederate Flags Must Vanish | 3/5/1996 | See Source »

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