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Sophomore midfielder Armando Petruccelli will play tomorrow, solidifying the team's defense. He missed the last game due to the beating he received at the hands of a hyper-aggressive Princeton team and is anxious to get on to the field...
...dying, and in the beginning of his presidential race last April, when he emerged from a long seclusion to stubbornly campaign, make public appearances, and even dance to rock music to win the vote," says Zarakhovich. "However, each such recuperation seems to take a heavy toll. These bouts of hyper-activity that followed periods of inaction and illness have led to passivity and long hospital stays, reminding the Russians of the Brezhnev-Chernenko era." How long Yeltsin's latest recovery will last is anybody's guess: "Over last 80 years, the Soviet school of medicine has attained only one major...
When a group of alumni moved to prevent the construction of the Humanities Quad in place of the Freshman Union this year, some reminisced wistfully about a time of architectural charm at Harvard, before hyper-professional, post-modern buildings dotted the campus...
...staff's criticism of grade inflation illustrates one of the most annoying facets of the Harvard experience--dealing with uptight, hyper-competitive undergraduates. The reason that some Harvard students seethe about "the mires of grade inflation" is because high achievement by most of the student body robs them of a perverse pleasure that they have grown accustomed to enjoying. That is, many undergraduates cannot feel happy unless they are demonstrating that they are somehow superior to others...
...looming gap within. It is intellectualism and science which have drilled the hole we seek to fill with fortune-telling. The fact that MIT, renowned capital of science and reason, offers a course in palmistry, proves it. MIT needs some brand of irrationality to counter and assuage its otherwise hyper-ultra-rational pursuits. (Harvard, on the other hand, fulfills its quotient with the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies). True, literature and folk and myth concentrators swarm around Paul; but he is even more accosted by computer science and physics concentrators, begging for a grain of his prescience. The modern...