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When I was a student at Dartmouth I used to joke about the cocky pretension and narrow-minded egoism of Harvard students. I always thought of those images as inaccurate stereotypes. Maybe I was wrong. --Robert C. Bordone Dartmouth College, Class of 1994 Harvard Law School, Class...
...Division III Beavers, who entered the game with a 3-0 record and hopes of avenging a narrow 67-62 loss to Harvard a year ago, fell apart in the game's final eighteen minutes after rallying to a 38-38 tie two minutes into the second half...
...Another camp, which includes deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes and possibly adviser-in-chief Hillary Rodham Clinton, wants the President to consolidate his party base. If that means dwelling on civil rights, abortion rights and labor issues, it's probably an agenda that would appeal to a too narrow slice of the ever more conservative electorate. As a rough blueprint for post-apocalypse strategy, White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, with the help of several other top aides, produced a memo one described as a "thought piece." The memo proposed that the President should attempt to govern from...
...morality plays. The President calls a strategy session in which aides debate the aliens' proposal as if it were a new national health plan. One adviser points out that, without blacks, the welfare rolls would drop 40%. Another cautions that African Americans were key to the President's narrow election victory. Humane considerations, anyone? "Do you really think," says one aide, "the aliens will treat them worse than we have...
...there is a danger in too narrow a focus on products and patents, warns Y.H. Tan, director of Singapore's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology. While these may pay off in the short term, they are unlikely to yield the dazzling technological leaps that come from tackling fundamental problems in science. Tan's solution: continue supporting basic research -- like mapping the genes of the fugu, the poisonous blowfish prized by sushi chefs -- while at the same time prospecting for new drugs in Southeast Asia's flora and fauna for the British giant Glaxo...