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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice faced a thankless, all but impossible task in trying to sell the Arab world on the U.S. policy of delaying a cease-fire so that the Israeli military can continue its anti-Hizballah campaign. But her case was hardly helped when she explained that the violence that has already killed more than 400 Lebanese and turned more than a half million into refugees represents the "birth pangs of a new Middle East." Phrases like that - and her rejection of the call for an immediate cease-fire on the grounds that "whatever we do, we have...
...this, we myopically ignore the most beleaguered and varied population on our campus—Teaching Fellows. Or, as I like to call them, “TFs.”TFs come in many different forms, but they all have the same job: teaching a crap-load of thankless material to a room full of phenomenally annoying 18-year-olds.Some have come to terms with this fact and are extremely jolly in consequence. Others need to jealously blog about how much they hated you, your papers, and your $500,000 book deal. It really depends.But more importantly, TFs, in general, have...
...Cambridge.Then this year, something I had only thought to be rumor hit: sophomore slump. Suddenly, work got harder, relationships got more complicated, and I slipped into an increasingly dark depression. By the end of first semester, I had suffered through Moral Reasoning 50, one badly broken heart, and 40 thankless hours a week at The Crimson. Things seemed desperate, and I considered taking a leave of absence for spring semester. I started to wonder if Harvard had been the right choice after all. What if I had gone to Smith or Wellesley? How could life have been different? I wouldn?...
Thank God the real talents of this film, like Sutherland, more-or-less direct themselves, otherwise “The Wild” would be too trivial to recommend (despite the terrific animation). William Shatner, taking a break from his deservedly thankless stint on “Boston Legal,” hilariously empowers Kazar, a diabolical carnivorous wildebeest-choreographer, in a nearly show-stopping display of dramatic versatility. But the show remains Sutherland’s in the end, as Kazar appears too infrequently to co-opt the film...
...putting Harvard ahead 7-2.Nevertheless, his coach and teammates—not to mention the home crowd—were pleased with the winger’s effort.“He’s a guy over the first three years [who] was asked to do a lot of thankless jobs,” said Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91. “So it was nice to see him have a great and fitting ending to his Bright Hockey [Center] career.”EARLY BIRDSHarvard’s offense surged in the opening frames...