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...came back to Harvard facing another semester as UC President and a host of new responsibilities as a student representative for the general education committee of the Curricular Review. Already disillusioned with the Harvard undergraduate experience, Mahan developed a distaste for the well-worn road he knew most of his classmates would take after leaving the University. Suddenly, the sunny, idealistic face of Harvard loathed the ambitious, pre-professional tendencies of his classmates. Harvard students should be using their privilege to change society, he decided, instead of “perpetuating the status...
...desire to bond with us over Amstel Light or an episode of the Daily Show, Dave is our day-to-day, true-blue hero. He embodies the ethos of FM: be serious, but don’t take yourself too seriously, and we love him for it. His well-worn proofer’s shoes will be hard to fill next semester. Aye aye, Cap?...
Clearly, this fish-out-of-water romance is a well-worn and somewhat predictable formula, but director Ondrej Trojan and writer Kveta Legatova weave such a captivating and convincing story that it doesn’t matter. If anything, the unsurprising plotline serves to create a sense of comfort as the film delves deeper into the intricacies of life in a small Eastern European village during World War II; everyone knows everyone else and, if it weren’t for the very occasional appearance of Nazi soldiers—often accompanied by violence—it would feel...
...table in front of him clear except for a half-eaten piece of blackberry pie, the well-worn home plate from Iowa's Field of Dreams baseball diamond in the aisle next to his seat, Kerry talked about the race, his opponent, his record and his plans--but not about his doubts, if he has any. "I think we are doing extraordinarily well," he told TIME. "I think this is a close race, and it's going to be a close race. I feel very confident in where we are and confident about the direction of this race...
...Distance can be overcome by modern-day communications and transport. Firing up the imagination is a harder task. So much remains hidden because we don't know where to look or because our curiosity has been dulled: we've forgotten how to see, or we limit our journeys to well-worn paths. Still, in a land as vast as Australia, there's more reason for joy than despair. Its myth-rich Aboriginal culture offers enlightenment if we care to engage with it; the seemingly barren interior can inspire awe when we visit the thriving land away from the coast...