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...this winter, I too am putting down the remote, embracing the French language, and working on this so-called “resumé.” As job interviews and career-related events erupt all over campus, I find myself getting a familiar feeling in the pit of my stomach as my mom lectures me about my Future in her “College Process” tone of voice that I thought I had left for dead in high school. It seems like everyone around me is building a resumé that is of similar length and quality...
...Canada and the United States, gold and silver medalists in Salt Lake City four years ago, both went out in the quarterfinals at Torino. As defending champion, Canada played the 20th Olympic Winter Games tournament as though doubled over by the weight of those expectations back home, displaying grim expressions, old legs and an impotent offense. By contrast, Russia embraced a youth-infused, why-not-us swagger, allowing its forwards to freelance and its goaltender to compensate as needed. Fittingly, sensational newcomer Alexander Ovechkin scored the winner as Russia eliminated Canada 2-0 on Wednesday; Sidney Crosby, his competition...
Faculty members yesterday struck a somber but relieved tone as they expressed hope that the University would move past the divisive battles of this month and last winter...
...Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, slavery, the Civil Rights movement, and enough talk about “continuing the dream” to last you a lifetime. As we cruise on toward March and toward the time when we can comfortably forget all such unpleasantness until next winter, let us pause and take a good look at what’s really going on here. All jokes about February being the shortest month aside, “Black History Month”—and I use the term very loosely—has a glaring problem...
...television cameras panned slowly across the podium. One by one, the young athletes came into view, bowing to receive the medals that will forever distinguish them as Olympic participants, that will serve as lifetime tokens of their two-week trip to the Winter Games in Turin in the Italian Alps, to the peak of competition in women’s hockey, to the heights of athletic immortality. For Harvard viewers, especially those familiar with the recent exploits of Katey Stone’s women’s hockey teams, there were a few familiar visages among the bunch. There...