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...fall of 2003, Cameron and Daniels recruited CDT’s greatest catch yet: Currie. Until she came on board, the dance team had coached itself. Captains were in charge of fundraising, choreography, and even auditions, selecting a team from a group of their peers...
...would not agree to catch a 168 mph pitch,” captain catcher Schuyler Mann wrote, adding that it would be “suicidal?...
Once a viable safeguard for library books, this antiquated search is now an ineffective and unnecessary hassle. Even the most zealous and thorough guards cannot catch everything—all one would really have to do is place a book underneath a few notebooks to get away with their treacherous book-stealing scheme. It’s such a shame. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we had the space-age technology to automate the check and detect the exit of hidden library materials not yet checked...
...that might have been uppermost in people's minds. Fictional heroes of the period may have offered similar distractions, functioning as little "bombs" in their own right. McMurphy of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Yossarian of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 were at war with the world, and both nuked the societies that sought to contain them. One took on the scientists, the other the military: a one-two punch for the common man. Perhaps these explosions were not diversions after all but more sophisticated signs of frustration with a world where...
...introduce our office, the Harvard University Blended Resolution Institutional Services (HUBRIS). Since the days of President McKinley, we’ve been the point-people behind some of the most successful operations in history. Spirit of Saint-Louis? We built it. Catch-22? We wrote it. Bay of Pigs? Not us. As keepers of Harvard’s substantial intellectual, financial, and physical resources, we have the power to deploy solutions-oriented Harvard-affiliates to trouble spots around the world. In this case, we’ll save on airfare...