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Say Anything
As our emotional and existential stakes in the web have risen, so too have the damages that digital malevolence can wreak.
A Battle Between Forces of Good, Evil
It’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that Harvard will beat Yale yet again.
Hope Springs Eternal for Yale
Besides, it’s not like we’re gonna go for it on fourth-and-22 again, right? RIGHT?!?!
The S-Word
During his recent visit to Indonesia, President Barack H. Obama reiterated that America is not at war with Islam. But we must go even further: America is not at war with Sharia, either.
Coach Provides a Great Influence
As a rower, finding a college that met my criteria for the highest standards of academics and athletics was a top priority. However, it didn’t start out that way.
Harvard-Yale and its Meaning Over Time
My family comes together for three holidays every year: Harvard-Yale, Christmas, and the Super Bowl. And when it comes to family tradition, the latter two can’t compare. It’s impossible to describe my family without mentioning The Game we hold so dear.
Make the Tax Cuts Permanent
Allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire would not solve the long-term deficit problem and could even make it worse.
The Long View
The Obama administration has done a great deal to increase America’s stock of human capital.
Reflections on Reflection
Reflection is a tough word to pin down, but for me it means thinking about my life the same way I think about a story or a poem, sifting through scenes or stanzas to find threads of meaning.
Comedy Comradery: Life Lessons from Cary Grant
It’s a cliché story of childhood friendship: We were misfits. We were three girls who read too much, had awkward bodies, and liked to quote Monty Python.
Penn More Energetic in Victory
PHILADELPHIA—In the game that would decide the fate of its season, Harvard didn’t look like a team fighting for a title. It looked like a team that just got beat.
Prisoner’s Dilemma
Expect Cuba to continue to release prisoners and move toward democracy. In Burma, democracy’s greatest voice is now free. But we will have to wait to see if the move is anything more than lip service.
Like Firesheep to the Slaughter
Chances are you’ve heard of Firesheep, the web plug-in that lets anybody access other people’s Facebook and Twitter accounts over the same wireless network. The application is dangerous but eye-opening, and it may redefine the Internet as we know it.
Space Jam Set For Penn, Harvard
If there’s anyone that can relate to the Harvard football team right now, it’s Bugs Bunny.
Harvard Basketball Poised for Greatness
The Chinese surname “Lin” means “forest” or “woods” in English. It’s appropriate in that, coming out of the Jeremy Lin era, a young 2010-11 Harvard men’s basketball team has the ability to finally escape from the woods of Ivy basketball irrelevance and begin a golden age of success the program has never achieved.
Losing Makes Winning Better
Rather than look at the season gone by and wonder what went wrong, these moments of failure offer an opportunity to look back at the teams and the successes they’ve had.
Bills' QB Is Quite A Fantasy Dream
Tracking Yahoo! draft trends and staying up-to-date on Michael “PETA Pal” Vick’s injuries have yet to translate into a post-graduate job (big deal) for me, but playing fantasy football did direct my attention to the rise of Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05.
The Non Sequitur War
Whether the goal is defending American security or improving the lives of Afghans, occupying Afghanistan is a wasteful way to meet our objectives.
‘Walking Dead’ Brings New Life to AMC
It needs to be said: zombies aren’t sexy. Fortunately, “The Walking Dead” goes for the brains, like any good zombie would.
Suppress or Express
The perceived function of fashion is an inherent contradiction—oscillating between an artificial construction to be utilized, recycled, and disposed of by the individual, and a means for self-expression.
Waiting for a Better Movie
The system of evaluating educators which the film seems to advocate is arbitrary and incomplete.
Football Still Far from Perfect
With a 23-7 win over Columbia in the books, the Harvard football team is in a place many skeptics thought it wouldn’t reach after its embarrassing 29-14 Ivy-opening loss at Brown.
League Plays A Waiting Game
November at Harvard is a month of being in between. We’re stuck between fall and winter, between Halloween and the Game, between midterms and finals. And in Ancient Eight football, things are no different.