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...important step in the right direction. As the primary athletic facility for the majority of Houses—as well as the Yard—the addition of treadmills and spinning bikes will go a long way toward alleviating both the lack of availability and the rigid time-slotting so irksome to busy undergraduates. When viewed in light of other recent changes—such as the recent funding initiative to significantly enhance House gyms as well as the gutting of Hilles to make way for additional student space—it is clear that Harvard is finally making headway...
Another group that I’ve come to appreciate through my interactions is the secret service agents, especially in light of my previous stereotype of them as rigid and humorless. Like the advance staff, the agents work long and thankless hours with an incredible level of professionalism...
...Descended from French Huguenots on his mother's side, Hamilton was fluent in French and had served as Washington's liaison with the Marquis de Lafayette and other French aristocrats who had rallied to the Continental Army. The French Revolution immediately struck him as a bloody affair, governed by rigid, Utopian thinking. On Oct. 6, 1789, he wrote a remarkable letter to Lafayette, explaining his "foreboding of ill" about the future course of events in Paris. He cited the "vehement character" of the French people and the "reveries" of their "philosophic politicians," who wished to transform human nature. Hamilton believed...
...S.B.C. leaders hoped that the sanction would shame "that woman," however, they were wrong. "Paul did have some pretty rigid things to say" about women, the Rev. Shelton admits. "But you have to consider it in historical context. Paul also said in Galatians, 'There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Jesus Christ...
...have to empathize," Kane says. "You've got to say, 'Mom, I'm sorry it's so hard.' Period." Attempting to convince parents they're better off in a new setting is a mistake, she adds. "They'll hear that as abandonment and be even more threatened and rigid...