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While most freshman find the adjustment to Harvard somewhat unnerving, Weinstein believes that it is Crimson life that keeps him sane...
...York, where he made his start. Swetland has had many an odd job in his time--foot messenger, fruit stand salesperson, film production assistant and sporadic stints as a writer. Claiming to have designed a rack of satirical t-shirts (including those "Hahvahd" spoofs) Swetland describes himself as "somewhat of an artiste" who writes in his Central Square apartment from time to time. Although his T performances pay for his rent and survival, this performer's motivation is much more heartfelt. "I like to think that up to 10,000 people around Boston who are stressed out from their work...
...them, joined hands and smote John McCain. Thanks in large part to the support of the Christian conservative voting bloc, George W. Bush chalked up a nine-point victory in Virginia's Republican primary, securing all 56 of the state's delegates. Although Bush's margin in Virginia was somewhat smaller than what aides had hoped for, the campaign's good spirits were reinforced by substantial triumphs in North Dakota and Washington State, where the Texas governor scored among Republicans but lost the non-binding independent vote to McCain. "This is a big win for Bush," says TIME political correspondent...
Gladwell says his book is intended partly as antidote to the current and somewhat fatalistic intellectual climate, in which immutable genes are supposed to explain the present and set the future in concrete. "Sometimes we talk as if there were no such thing as culture," he says. "Culture has a real effect on how we act and what we believe." So, there's the 1984 study that found that ABC News anchor Peter Jennings was more likely to smile on camera when talking about Ronald Reagan than Walter Mondale, and that in the same year the people who watched...
...performance determined whether or not a student was accepted into one of the Houses. After being denied his sophomore year, Mailer got into Dunster House in his junior year and became a member of the "Dunster Funsters." Dearborn writes that Mailer never got over "the lingering snobbishness he had somewhat uneasily observed and absorbed at Harvard...