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...soap opera is inevitable. The ambition that got us here affects the way students look for social relationships. Last year, Crimson columnist Ross G. Douthat ’02 wrote about the social landscape here: “We are a Darwinist’s delight, superbly adapted to vanquish every competitor. In the Harvardian universe, the advantage often goes—at least in the short term—to the manipulative and dishonest and cutthroat, the people willing to backstab and lie and cheat their way upwards...
...folly of this latter type of blocking group lies in student perceptions of competition. Yes, we have to “vanquish every competitor” to get here, but once on a campus full of the most interesting and brilliant students in the country, it’s time to put aside our Darwinian impulses. Blocking should be based on friendship, and nothing else. Those unfortunate enough to find themselves in a blocking group that more closely resembles a political coalition will need to take advantage of House communities and extracurricular interests next year to find more genuine, trustworthy...
...instead of being tired from her marathon match, Quibell rebounded after dropping the first game 10-8 to Hall to vanquish the Harvard No. 1 in the next three games...
Being openly fatalistic is rare in a country where questioning Saddam's invincibility can be injurious to your health. Ask a Baghdadi about the prospects of war, and you will almost always get the official line: Iraq's mighty military, led by its beloved President, will vanquish the foolish Americans, God willing. But in the Iraqi stereotype, southerners always tell it like...
...Priests plan to slaughter a deer, a bull, a cow, a goat, a turtle, a pig, a white swan, a red swan and a black dog with a black tongue, and each household on the island will erect bamboo poles laden with fruits, flowers and palm fronds. Rituals may vanquish ghosts, but they aren't known to scare off terrorists...