Word: loaded
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...hobbies. She was forced to give up the cello, an instrument she has played since the third grade, due to a shoulder injury her sophomore year, and she has not been able to play much due to her hectic practice and game schedule on top of a full class load...
...last week, sprinting stark naked at midnight through the Yard while ululating at screaming onlookers. From that experience, and from running in Primal Scream the very next night, I had drawn a number of profound lessons about pride and identity at Harvard. But those turned out to be a load of response-paper crap, so I threw most of it out. Here's the short version...
Harvard would add two more runs in the inning to knock Northwestern starter Brie Brown out of the game. After Brown hit Godfree and forced Abeles to pop out, McKendry, Koppel and freshman Monica Montijo hit consecutive singles to put Harvard up 4-0. Springer walked to load the bases with one out, but Harvard was unable to get any more runs across...
FUNNY FUND NUMBERS Dreyfus Corp. is paying out $3 million to settle allegations that it wasn't being up front with its investors about the risks of its Aggressive Growth Fund. Take note: managers eager to boost the returns of new funds may load up on IPOs, which can later tank. That's what the Dreyfus fund did, gaining 81.92% in its first year but then losing 5.94% its second. So be wary of funds with great rookie seasons; the second time around is much tougher...
...getting stuck among the slackers. Thanks to his loony attitude toward higher education ("If you're smart enough to go to college, you're smart enough to pay for it yourself"), tuition at our state colleges will stay sky-high, meaning kids who graduate leave with a debt load as big as a barn. This is the difference between my day and now. In my day, the G.I. Bill made it patriotic to support higher education, and those of us who went to college in the 1960s were the beneficiaries: tuition was cheap. Now we launch kids into the world...