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...don’t feel it,” says Doherty. “The lesson we’ve learned as a defense is to focus on the things we can control. If we do that, we’ll be able to hold up our end of the bargain...
Having weathered a few years at Harvard, though, we can offer the obviously eager freshmen an important lesson: There are not that many friendly people at Harvard, and the fact that your facebook friends number close to 1,000 does not negate this. We would be lying if we upperclassmen denied feeling a twinge of envy towards freshmen, here not even a full week, boasting twice the number of "friends" as we have. But it's really not much of an accomplishment. The only time were invariably friendly at Harvard is on our resumes and our facebook profiles. The only...
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...future, not the past. "They want to know what happened," he said. "But they're more interested in how we're helping these people get back on their feet." Nonetheless, Bush, whose stump patter often includes a paean to maternal wisdom, is learning the hard way a lesson any mother could have imparted: you have only one chance to make a first impression. --With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr., Timothy J. Burger, Massimo Calabresi, James Carney, Matthew Cooper and Karen Tumulty / Washington...
...hours after a disaster is the "golden" period. That is when victims should start receiving food, water, ice and medication. "If you are not visible within 72 hours, you will have chaos," says Joe Myers, who was Florida's emergency director from 1993 to 2001. That was a lesson from Hurricane Andrew, when there was looting in parts of Miami-Dade County for at least a month after the storm. "Every minute counts. Every second counts," says Mayor Joseph Riley, who led Charleston, S.C., through Hurricane Hugo...