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...This is the 122nd time we play Yale. We’re going for a victory.” As Grimm finished up his speech, a swaggering John Harvard and a helpless Yale bulldog performed an intricate fight sequence that ended with John Harvard flattening the bulldog with a vicious uppercut. Students also sang along as the Harvard Band played “Ten Thousand Men of Harvard” and watched as cheerleaders performed acrobatic stunts. “I’ve been here 12 years, we’ve never had anything like this...
...agree—even when a friend accuses me of causing male cronyism in financial institutions because I frequent final clubs (yes, me alone). For the fourth time in my Harvard career, I’m watching as my male friends go through the clubs’ vicious processes, and for the fourth time, I’m disgusted. I watch their self-esteem ebb and flow on the vacillating whims of “the members.” I listen with horror—and a little awe—to stories about the extravagant trips taken...
...world's lower brain to the upper, and back down again. Gestures of statesmanship, as lately in Northern Ireland, alternated with low-brain savageries: the lashing tribal wars of Bosnia, Somalia, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh . . . The list of conflicts went on and on, like a vicious geography lesson. The euphoria that had attended the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of communism and the end of the cold war had some seers announcing that amid instant global communications, the ''end of history'' had arrived in the triumph of free-market democracy. But the brilliant moment faded...
...Christian conservative leader James Dobson of the organization Focus on the Family disclosed last week that top Bush aide Karl Rove had privately told him Bush was focusing on women as candidates and that some conservative favorites had dropped out of the running "because the process has become so vicious." Neither Dobson nor the White House gave specifics, and even allies on the right were skeptical of the account. "I don't buy it," one leading conservative said...
...that many conservatives are now upset about, were highly qualified individuals that had been passed over," Dobson says. "What Karl told me is that some of those individuals took themselves off that list and they would not allow their names to be considered, because the process has become so vicious and so vitriolic and so bitter, that they didn't want to subject themselves or the members of their families...