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...each other. Contrary to life at Harvard, back home we all felt comfortable making stupid conversation and resorting to humor of the lowest common denominator. And, after spending a year in an environment of such intellectualism and personal growth, it would be a nice change of pace simply to regress...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: POSTCARD FROM NEW YORK | 7/2/1998 | See Source »

...frankly, after the obligatory minor spasms of unreasoning, abject fear had rippled from hair follicles to bowel, it seemed to me that maybe the end of civilization as we know it isn't such a bad idea. After all, in our long, tedious march of regress have we earthlings really accomplished much besides spewing garbage, ammunition and the Jerry Springer Show into the environment? Wouldn't it set a nice example if we could just for once accept the inevitable and issue a press release reading, "Hey, we gave it our best shot, but we really weren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Upside Of Doom | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

Folkman's office is inundated with hundreds ofphone calls from hopeful cancer patients and theirfamily members each day. Some have read in thenewspaper that one of the inhibitors has beenshown to regress leukemia. Others call to seekmedical guidance for cancer...

Author: By Franklin W. Huang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cancer Cure Anticipated | 3/3/1998 | See Source »

...such parity decorating the league this season it is easy to get caught in hyperbole, but there is no denying that Harvard was at the top of its game for 20 minutes last night. The question that remains is whether or not the Crimson will continue that play or regress to inconsistent hockey...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Icemen Thrash Brown, 5-2 | 12/10/1997 | See Source »

When Emily Dickinson corresponded with her lover, a married man, she made every letter count. Today, the art of letter writing has been reduced to the dregs of sub-standard English found in e-mail. Even grade A Harvard scribes tend to regress on the Internet, thanks to the College's most tried and true teaching method: Pavlovian conditioning...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Technology Kills Romance | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

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