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...majority of undergraduate students rows at some point while at Cambridge. What a contrast to Harvard, where participation in intramural sports is notoriously feeble. Spending a year in Cambridge to take a master’s degree has offered a chance to those of us from Harvard to ponder, through such comparisons, the meaning of a Harvard education...
...college students across the country ponder casting votes in primaries this week, the last thing we need is more reasons to keep them away from the polls. As it is, the number of college voters hovers around 50 percent, and this at a time when youth activism seems to be all the hype. While numerous theories attempt to account for this low number—from apathy to complacency to ignorance—the voting process itself may very well be discouraging, and even disenfranchising, a number of young voters...
...state he could win "given my positions, given the pros and cons." But at the Orange County Republican dinner Saturday night, Rudy made a telling quip: "People pay a lot of money to spend the month of Florida in January." When the political science classes ponder the remarkable collapse of the Giuliani '08 campaign, they might come to think of it as a $40 million Florida vacation...
...nearby KFC outlet, one woman asks about the cheapest menu options, then asks for a discount. The counter girl tells her there's no bargaining and shoos her away. Nearby, three friends who work together at a fishing tackle factory sit at a high table and ponder their options. They had showed up early in the morning for a 6.30 p.m. train home to Chongqing, but despite a day of waiting on line, they still couldn't get through the throng into in the station in time. "We're wondering if we should stay or go," says Jiang Jinan...
...brunt of the explosion as it tried to pass the embassy vehicle. A third body, limbs blasted to bloody stumps, lay facedown on the road. To the east, the snow-capped peak of Mount Sannine turned blood red as the sun dipped below the Mediterranean, leaving the Lebanese to ponder the implications of yet another attempted assassination...