Word: wave
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...After a wave of financial aid increases swept America's top colleges, Congress got into the act yesterday in a big way, approving a bill that will make paying off student loans easier for college students and graduates nationwide--including Harvard students...
...physicists scoffed at turns out to be one of the most energetic objects in the universe -- a form of neutron star left over from a supernova, so tightly packed that its magnetic field is a trillion times stronger than the sun's. If we could have harnessed that single wave of energy, it would have been enough to "power all of human civilization on Earth for a billion billion years," according to Kevin Hurley of the University of California at Berkeley. "I've never seen anything like it." Most of us never...
...pizza. Today's council has much less to do with politics and much more to do with serving students. It is, I hope, a better council, a council that the students of this school asked for in the past election. But it is a council which needs a fresh wave of new blood. It needs students who stayed away in the past because they didn't want to spend five hours every Sunday night sitting in meetings, and students who never before even thought of running, but are willing to today because they want to serve their fellow students...
...forget the Internet. You know, that shimmering entity that has enraptured human wonder like nothing since Helen of Troy. We're the "wired" generation, throwing out those silly paper books and riding the digital wave. Isn't that correct? Swell. Excuse me for not exuding giddiness over a development that, for all its great potential, still exists largely as a bog of mental quicksand for perverts and ninth-graders (often one and the same) to wade around in. Right now the experts are claiming that the Internet will forge a bond of understanding and goodwill across the globe. Of course...
After an impressive showing this weekend in New York, the Harvard men's water polo team (3-7) entered last night's contest against MIT riding a wave of confidence and with expectations of victory. Instead, after a hard fought battle against the Engineers, they left Blodgett Pool dealing with a 10-9 setback, feeling as if victory had been stolen from their grasp...