Word: everly
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Students are more aware than ever of the potential risks associated with drinking. But it seems that at Harvard, at least, students have not changed their behavior despite being well-informed...
...stated on the Web site of Harvard University Mail Services. Even more frustrating is the fact that three of Driskell's opponents considered doing the same thing but decided against it. Darling called Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans to ask permission and was told that no candidate would ever be given permission by a dean to do a campaign mail-drop. Moreover, Nathans told Darling that a dean's permission would be required to do so. Francis X. Leonard '01, another presidental candidate, asked the same thing of the authorities in the Kirkland Mail Center and was flatly denied...
...force of these grim tidings is tempered by the knowledge that U.S. government agencies have been working alongside the country's most prestigious research facilities to conjure up ways of dealing with these hurtling rocks should an asteroid ever establish itself as a threat. "Once they've identified the asteroid," Jaroff says, "scientists can predict years, even decades ahead of time whether it will intersect the Earth's orbit at a moment when the Earth is there." And should scientists discover such a scenario looming on the horizon, Jaroff says there are many ways to engage, deflect or destroy...
...much of soldiers' hidden reserves of strength - to run faster, to push harder, to scream louder - is tapped by the learned belief that quitting is simply not an alternative. So when a civilian asks me whether I could ever really kill, whether I feel it's sinful or acceptable now that I'm a soldier, my answer is usually that killing is probably easier when someone orders you to do it, when you've promised someone you will...
...lofty that the job should never fall to me? It probably won't; wars are too small these days to require the trigger fingers of a journalist in the Reserves. The Army's real warriors are in the infantry, the Rangers, Special Forces. Hard core. But if the enemy ever gets close enough for the likes of me, don't forget - I'm a pretty good shot, and I've got the little medal to prove...