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After a summer without popcorn chicken, ranger cookies and Harvard fruit salad, students may have returned to those same dishes, yet something is amiss in the dining halls. The small cards that used to detail each food’s caloric content no longer accompany every dish. This act of removal has omitted an ineffective way of keeping healthy. This removal is a relief to those who worry that the excessive attention to the number of calories in a dish exacerbates unhealthy eating habits. Furthermore, the cards were an ineffective way of maintaining healthy eating habits, given that caloric content...
When crisis strikes, it has often been Congress’s knee-jerk reaction to accept whatever the executive branch has to offer. The Patriot Act and the Iraq War are a couple of recent examples, and the trend continues today. The current financial crisis is an issue that strikes at the hearts—and pocketbooks—of every American, and is sending Congress into panic mode again. It seems that few predicted a worsening crisis after the subprime bubble months ago, listening to President George W. Bush’s serene conviction that everything was going smoothly...
...Sadly, in our age ruled by liability concerns and the Americans with Disabilities Act, the once-mandated swim test is no longer a graduation requirement. No doubt the more sedentary of Harvard students can breathe a sigh of relief that they will never have to endure the indignity of forced exercise...
...September 17, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6899, the Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act. The measure, which allows for some domestic oil drilling and exploration in a zone 50 to 100 miles offshore, is widely viewed as a concession by congressional Democrats to the Republican minority during an important election year in which gasoline prices skyrocket and the economy continues to stagger. While the pinched wallets of gas-guzzling Americans has sparked a political showdown over offshore drilling, the partisan warfare has unfortunately obscured a larger, more serious issue—the need for a comprehensive...
...until five days after it occurred. The alert also warned residents to close their windows when leaving their rooms and not to hold doors open for strangers, a message emphasized over e-mail by Resident Dean Judith F. Chapman and House Master Lee Gehrke. Both strongly discouraged the act known as “piggybacking,” or letting an unfamiliar individual follow a student inside a building that requires card access. But the notice comes too late for Benowitz, who said she would have wanted to know of the DeWolfe robbery sooner...