Word: arens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such parents aren't really trying to invade your privacy--they just believe that discussing personal things will keep you closer to home...
...juniors, most of us aren't particularly interested in inspiration anymore, let alone the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Instead of leading our parents into cavernous dining halls to show them where all our amazing conversations took place, we will plead with them to take us out to eat. Instead of attending faculty panels, we will ask them to take us out shopping, or to a movie or museum. Instead of showing them where our classes meet and where our friends live, we will sit down with them and tell them about the classes we love and the people we hate...
These offers aren't hare-brained, get-rich-quick schemes, but rather experiments conducted at William James Hall on behalf of Harvard's Department of Psychology...
There are a lot of people on campus working on a lot of good things, dealing with these issues on a variety of fronts. But most of these people rarely cross paths. Many other people aren't involved in this kind of "everyday politics" because there isn't any institutional support on campus to make that involvement easy. There are plenty of things at Harvard designed to occupy your time in other ways--problem sets, final clubs, football games. But there are not enough activities that bring people together across group affiliations as students who have something to say about...
Even the savviest Web surfers still get fooled by sleazy sites that sneak innocuous words like child care into nasty porn hubs. The problem is that most search engines aren't smart enough to separate the meat from the spam. Last week a start-up called Goto offered the perfect capitalistic solution: goto.com the search engine that ranks sites by what they're willing to fork over. If Chrysler pays Goto more than Ford, it'll pop up first when you hunt for a good deal on a new car. And because smut sites are too cheap (or popular...