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...hassle of staying up to par on the latest laundry technology and the inconvenience of frequently repairing machines that have suffered the brunt of Harvard students' misplaced angst, Harvard subcontracts the operation and maintenance of its laundry facilities to a Cambridge based corporation called Mac-Gray. Mac-Gray provides and services the machines as often as is necessary and, in turn, Mac-Gray collects the profits that the machines generate. However, the money that the machines bring in far exceeds the costs of maintaining them, and therefore Mac-Gray returns a fixed percentage of the revenues generated by Harvard...

Author: By Lauren E. Baer, | Title: Washed Away with the Tide | 2/14/2001 | See Source »

...most insidious aspect of the Harvard finals system is the mental angst caused by its duration. Classes bleed into winter break, which bleeds into reading period, which bleeds into an extensive finals period. The time bleeds students dry. Three weeks of hanging over the ravenous jaws of finals is enough mental torture to break anyone's will...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: The Rack of Reading Period | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...conveniently arranged sheets, no angst, no kisses shot from the back: in 10 hot minutes [this work] opens the closet of gay...sexuality and chucks in a neon stick of dynamite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 2000 TIME Current Events Quiz | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...middle-aged, balding and his angst is monumental. But novelist Michel Houellebecq just might become your newest hero. Although Americans are just beginning the struggle to pronounce his phonetics-defying name ("Wellbeck"), the French have been engaged for the last two years in an intense debate over the significance of his scandalously right-wing and pornographic weltenshaung. But if you haven't heard of Houellebecq, never fear; in the course of the next year, you will probably be unable to avoid him. To many French, he has already been christened the new Camus, a potential leading figure for a whole...

Author: By Annalise Nelson, | Title: Ups and Downs in Houellebecq's Strange, Charmed Particle World | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

...spent more than 30 years on Lake Powell. "O.K., are you ready to see your Admiral houseboat?" he asked. Before any of us could respond, there it was--every bit as enormous as I had imagined it in my worst anxiety attack. Once we were inside, though, the angst turned to wonder. It looked more like a luxury two-story condo in Trump Tower than a boat. The Admiral came with a fully equipped kitchen, a large oval dining table that could comfortably seat eight, four private bedrooms, two bathrooms, central air conditioning, an outdoor barbecue grill, a large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Be Admiral Of Your Own Houseboat | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

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