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When students of other, lesser schools try to belittle Harvard, they often criticize its attitude towards undergraduates. Harvard is frequently perceived as a cold place where students, who receive little or no personal attention from their professors, are left to fend for themselves...
...last year promising that he would be the one to restore honor and dignity to the office, so help him God. And he was the sunny conservative who was flirting with all those minivan moms and flinging open the G.O.P. primaries so that moderate voters could help him fend off threats from Steve Forbes and the rest of the pack. So how is it that the candidate whose stake as the front runner was based on his war chest, his invincibility and his proven crossover appeal now finds himself running out of cash and scrambling for the attention of those...
...flow to the investment banks from those deals will continue to beef up their bottom lines. But all elements of the financial-service sector--indeed, all intermediaries in the economy, from auctioneers to arbitrageurs--need to remind themselves daily that their hallowed brands and array of services will not fend off the challenges of the Internet...
...Hasty Pudding stage, Curtis was 'roasted' by Sarah A. Knight '00, president of the Pudding theatricals and Robert E. Schlesinger '00, vice president of the cast, who jokingly quizzed Curtis about the weapons she used to fend of serial killer Mike Meyers in her three Halloween horror movies...
Harvard was able to use its defense to fend off efforts by Roger Williams to climb back into the game, riding the momentum of blocks by Bookman and co-captain Ed Pankau. After a gritty 15-13 win in the third game, the Crimson turned its attention to sealing the deal and winning its first league match...