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Spam hardly needs an introduction. Anyone with an e-mail account knows the acute frustration of being inundated with offers of pills from virtual pharmacists, financial propositions from Nigerian princes and pictures for fetish sites that really, really shouldn't exist. Spam has even gone beyond e-mail: like kudzu, it adapts to clog whatever online inbox you might choose. On Oct. 30, the social-networking site Facebook won a $711 million judgment against the self-proclaimed "Spam King" Sanford Wallace. Wallace, a professional e-mail marketer from New Hampshire who also likes to be called Spamford, used ill-gotten...
...carries them all down a communal path of violence, hatred, and destruction. Ellroy’s is a well-crafted foray into the dark-side of America, but the author’s attempt at absolute historic totality hinders the novels complete success. Ellroy’s desire to account for almost every day in the book’s nine-year time span causes the narrative to drag, and because of the novel’s extreme length, readers not completely invested in the minute details of the characters’ lives will find themselves struggling at times...
...fictionalized world behind real events, depicting the fallout from Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, the election of President Nixon, the presence and fear of communism, and the eventual death of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover from a more cynical perspective than the history books. His account of the era orients the readers in the plot and leaves them with a true sense of the anger, both righteous and profane, that highlighted the period. Ellroy’s distinctive style—the brief, spare syntax reminiscent of hardboiled detective fiction—sets a dark tone...
Harvard may be over 300 years old, but that hasn’t stopped it from keeping up with the times. Like other colleges, Harvard created its very own Twitter account, tweeting away updates and announcements for over 4,000 following students, teachers, alums, and others as of this past Sunday. According to UniversitiesandColleges.org, it’s the #1 school in the country in number of followers, with Stanford and Yale at distant second and third places. And where Harvard tweets, others tweet back. Here’s what’s twittering around campus...
Moral of the story? Discounts are plentiful in Harvard Square—keep your eyes peeled and you may just run into some great deals that will keep your bank account in the black. At least...