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...tough to please. Last week, compacters were attacked in their chat room as "hypocritical and smug," for boasting that they repair rather than replace their vacuum cleaners. "If you were really concerned about curtailing runaway consumerism, you'd ditch your broken vacuum cleaners for a broom," wrote one purist. But Kesel counters that she can't get cat hair off her rug with a broom. "People say we don't take it far enough," she muses. "But I'm like, whoa, in American consumer culture, any step is positive." And in the self-denial department, those are soothing words...
Steven C. Swett ’56 had already moved into his freshman dormitory when he was informed about a surprise third roommate who would be joining them. Little did Swett know he would be bunking with J. Carter Brown ’56, a descendant of the initial donors...
...crowd of 5,049—the largest figure for any athletic event in the school’s history—the Bobcats won their inaugural game in the ECAC, downing Harvard 5-2 Friday night. “I’d love to able to sweep it under the rug and say, ‘Hey, it was a big, emotional game for them,’ but they deserved to win,” said Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91. The Bobcats’ conference opener was staged in the Hartford Civic Center...
...professional sports we have often allowed these expectations to take a back seat to our own entertainment. As a society, we’d rather sweep Barry Bonds’ drug allegations under the rug and pay huge ticket prices to see him continue to break records than to watch just one more average player. We are a culture that reveres achievement at any cost whether in the board room or on the playing field, and in a year dominated by corporate, political, and athletic scandal it’s evident that as long as our expectations are so high...
...soul, but he cannot tell when an employee is lying through his teeth. On the evening of July 4, George W. Bush was approached by a White House usher who told him that his brand new Oval Office rug had arrived. Wouldn?t he like to take a peek at it? The President said he?d love to, opened the door and was greeted by 85 friends gathered for a surprise birthday party...