Word: sectioning
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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When one Harvard students sends another an e-mail message, Harvard's routers know to move it from one Harvard computer to another. This data never leaves Harvard's section of the Internet...
...Yale? Yale has the same successful alumni and the same mind-boggling influx of wealth as Harvard. Both are considered among the nation's very best schools. The students who go to Harvard and Yale come from the same applicant pool and thus both have the same cross-section of socioeconomic backgrounds. When the two schools meet during the festivities of The Game, it is a weekend of blue bloods attending an Ivy League reunion...
...winning season). It wasn't the cold: The Yale Bowl, stuck seemingly in a wind-swept spot in the midst of nowhere, has wreaked more havoc on my tropical blood. It was the ticketing. My friends and I entered the stadium and took up our assigned seats in Section 11. Whereupon we realized that, even though our tickets clearly said we were Harvard students, Section 11 was on the side of the stadium flying the blue "Y" flag and had a crowd comprised mainly of Yale alumni. Dubious. Who wants bipartisan seating? You might as well seat Rep. Barney Frank...
Since so many of us migrants were crowding into the Harvard side, the police had to force us to move back to our assigned seats. In the ensuing unwilling return back to the dreaded Section 11, we missed the record-setting touchdown return by Okechukwu "Chuck" U. Nwokocha '01. Ninety-four apparently amazing yards, and I saw none of it. Sure, we enjoyed ourselves in the end, shouting out counter-abuse at the people around us. But I doubt we were as spirited as we could have been. It wasn't just that it was less fun. There were safety...
...five-minute intervals one after another. So were Joe Lieberman, Karenna, Tipper. Everyone was on the phone, on the air. Gore consulted with staff members about his speech for that evening, how he wanted to frame a victory and how he would handle a defeat. He asked for a section about his father, how he had lost Tennessee but had never stopped loving it and calling it home, and how sometimes it was better to lose because you stood up for what you believed...