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...Saturday afternoon the Crimson devoured the Quakers with a zeal usually reserved for their breakfast cereal. Harvard came back dramatically after halftime to give the University of Pennsylvania a beating they will not soon forget. As predicted, Neil Rose and Carl Morris valiantly led Harvard past Penn’s imposing defense. With countless big plays when they mattered most, the Crimson showed that they had not only the ability, but also the will, to win. Harvard’s 28-21 victory guarantees we will win at least a share of this year’s Ivy League title...
...bombs the U.S. began unleashing a few weeks ago--is to terrorize enemy troops into surrender. The Pentagon believes such intimidation is beginning to take hold. Though the Northern Alliance claimed massive enemy desertions, U.S. commanders know better than to count on a collapse of the Taliban's fighting zeal...
This disorder’s symptoms vary widely, needless to say, based on individual constitutions—but fortunately, the symptoms are easily recognizable to the trained (i.e., Harvard-educated) eye. For one thing, the Harvard Syndrome causes otherwise sincere people to lie, with almost pathological zeal, about their motives for not attending Harvard. The lies can range from the banal (“lousy undergrad education,” as my Legal Seafood chum insisted) to the breathtaking and patently unbelievable (“I really liked Yale better”). But however involved and intricate?...
...most dismaying consequence of the Sept. 11 terrorist acts is the zeal with which America is rushing to abandon its democratic values. The FBI, we learn, will have expanded wiretapping and surveillance powers. The U.S. has spent much of the past century struggling against governments that monitored the actions of their citizens, restricted their movements and engaged in ruthless policies beyond the reach of morals, ethics or the knowledge and consent of their people. So why surrender now? Law, liberty, justice, freedom and fair play are not luxuries that we must regretfully abandon when the American way of life...
...don’t agree with a lot of things they do,” King says, adding that “in their zeal to raise money” Harvard sometimes loses its focus on education. When asked about the fundraising aspects of his job, King demurs...