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...seems always to drift back down, I postpone such long-term decisions for quick fixes that allow me to linger in denial. My best trick so far is to set a dollar limit every time I open my gas cap. The idea is always to spend the same amount--$50, say--and drive as far as I can on what it buys me, even if it's not as far as yesterday. That gambit works well for a week or two, I find, but then it gradually stops working because of the same sort of sloppy mental accounting that prompts...
...lyricist at his most puckish. Consider these couplets that lead up to the title in five verses: "Ma Nature's lyrical / With her yearly miracle ? Each nest is twittering, / They're all baby-sittering ... Sun's getting' shinery / To spotlight the finery ... Even the catamount / Is nonplussed at that amount ... This home my momma's, I'll / Soon have my own domicile...
...idea that we’ve had for some time is to increase the opportunities in the FAS for what is just simply an enormous amount of student interest in global health,” he said yesterday. “I just can’t tell you how many undergraduates have come to speak to me about global health issues in Africa, in Latin America, in Asia...
...donor funding, but assuming all along that the buildings could be debt-funded,” Maull said. “If Harvard wants to lead in science, it has to forge ahead.”The planned expansion of the campus into Allston, meanwhile, will put an unknown amount of additional pressure on the Faculty’s finances.The 500,000-square-foot science complex planned for Western Avenue, for instance, will likely be ineligible to receive federal funds because it will house the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.Government grants are usually a prime way for universities to win back...
...said. To prepare for the tournament that aired Wednesday, Vaz took three weeks off from his hospital job and studied archived Jeopardy! questions and answers. He said that none of them appeared in his games. Vaz hopes to use his winnings, which for the moment officially amount to $10,000, to pay for a year off after medical school, when he plans to do public health work in developing countries. Michael G. Sullivan ’03, Vaz’s roommate for all four years at Harvard, said that Vaz was always a walking encyclopedia of knowledge. According...