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...advent of IM has had a particularly devastating effect on Harvard’s social dynamic. Because of its urban location and large institutional structure, Harvard naturally lacks that sense of college community that other schools have in spades. Students in years past were forced to cope with this reality by forming their own communities. However, the rise of high-speed Internet and Buddy Lists has impeded those types of community-building efforts. Students nowadays can attain the illusion of being part of a community while sitting in their rooms...
Longy Chamber Singers, with the Longy Chamber Orchestra, perform Bach’s Cantata No. 1, Pinkham’s Advent Cantata, and Rachmaninoff’s “Oh Gladsom Light” along with Christmas carols and Hanukkah songs. 7 p.m. Free. Edward M. Pickham Concert Hall, 27 Garden...
...DeWolfe suite looks more like a professor’s than a student’s: a daybed featuring a straightforward plaid comforter for the bedroom; a neatly kept living room complete with a coffee table and advent wreath center piece; kitchen stocked with sensible snack options like Triscuits and chicken noodle soup. His clothing, acquired from all over the world, but locally from the Andover Shop and Stonestreets, is more faculty than undergrad, too—a cashmere argyle sweater and khakis are his outfit of choice...
Every time a condom breaks, a woman has to endure an anxious, nail-biting month before she can know for sure that the coast is clear. But thanks to the advent of emergency contraception—what has appropriately been deemed “the morning-after pill”—women now have a safe and effective way of preventing pregnancy when mistakes and accidents happen. That is, of course, unless they happen to have sex on the weekend...
...Belarus. Counterfeiters have started operating in Western Europe as well. Just two weeks ago police in Marseilles detained a 43-year-old ex-con on suspicion of printing some 30,000 fake €50 and €100 bills that were ready for distribution. The largest bust since the advent of the euro took place in October in Italy, where finance police north of Naples seized nearly €1 million worth of bogus €50 notes ready for distribution and a staggering €13.5 million more in mid-production...