Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That included ignoring orientation week altogether. I didn't go to any of the Freshman Week events; instead, I tried to focus on things that would make life more normal for me. I flipped through the course catalog to figure out what courses I wanted to take, oriented myself around Harvard Square, and looked through the Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard to find out what student groups looked interesting, which is actually how I first discovered the business board of The Crimson. In retrospect, I think I was shell-shocked. By not participating in orientation week, I was trying...
Cantabrigians, angry because trucks use residential streets as shortcuts around congested highways, said they saw the unanimous council vote as a victory for the city...
...brochures say that a great deal of education takes place outside the classroom, and I couldn't agree more. First year students learn a lot more by stumbling around a bit--it not completely in the dark, at least in a little shade...
Harvard is different. In large, that's because most dorms in and around Harvard Yard are old--many date back more than 100 years...
...Usually when companies go public they use an investment bank like Morgan Stanley or Goldman Sachs to help market the stock to big investors. The banks charge a hefty sales commission -- called an underwriter's fee -- for the service, customarily around 7 percent of the total offering price. Instead Salon paid just 5 percent to San Francisco's W. R. Hambrecht. But here's the more important part. The mechanics are complicated, but common sense says that iVillage's offering price was set too cheap if it immediately quadrupled. Even though iVillage's first-day run-up was spectacular, most...