Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sometimes wonder why it took us three-and-a-half years of college to meet, but I also know of some powerful internal forces that may have been working against our meeting sooner. They are the same feelings that linger in the hearts of all of us to varying degrees, feelings which seem to be coming into even sharper focus in the hearts of graduating seniors: Fear of rejection. Fear of the unknown. Forecasting failure. Desire for security. Unwillingness to put ourselves on the line...
...like I'm going to meet anyone new there." At the time I called my friends wimps, but I knew that it could have just as easily been me offering the same excuses to mask my apprehension. Approaching graduation and moving to a new city, I wonder if I will make those same kinds of excuses in turning down new opportunities...
...opportunities are bound to present themselves to all of us after we leave Harvard. We can choose to play it safe and avoid intimidating situations, or we can take advantage of those opportunities and let loose a parade of possibilities. If we take a few chances, we'll never wonder about what might have been, and we'll never again have to make excuses. Adam R. Kovacevich'99 is a government concentrator in Quincy House. This is his final column...
...Roger Moore and former J. D. Salinger squeeze Joyce Maynard have all been there. Gwyneth Paltrow is mulling a visit, as are Christie Brinkley and hubby Peter Cook. From the Beltway, Hillary Clinton and Liddy Dole have pressed the flesh. And no less an assemblage than Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross, Boyz II Men and Luciano Pavarotti is signed to do a benefit for the Kosovar kids in Munich in June. Do we hear "We Are the Balkans...
Besides alleging that he has receivedUniversity support, some union members wonder ifhe conducts his campaign while on the clock...