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Dartmouth fans, some of the most avid in women’s hockey, are hoping to be mesmerized by a Big Green vcictory. But that may play to the Crimson’s advantage...
...lengthy e-mail from an avid Crimson reader disrupted an otherwise pleasant Wednesday morning: “Tell you what, Hasan,” it began, “make it so that my relatives and friends in Israel can go about their daily affairs without getting blown to bits by your brethren and I’ll support every protest you conduct to get rid of checkpoints and punish Israeli soldiers who abuse Palestinians...
...Seoul has also unleashed long pent-up consumer demand by easing limits on credit-card use, among other measures. Koreans were once avid savers, encouraged by government policies designed to funnel domestic capital to industry to bulk up manufacturing capacity. Today, citizens are shopping more and saving less?South Korea's savings rate measured against GDP has declined by 10 percentage points since 1987. In the rest of Asia, by contrast, domestic savings rates have remained at Scroogian levels...
...page that tells women to “forget about covering up. Wear what you like and what makes you feel good—even if it’s kind of bright and kind of tight.” A magazine is trying to get both the avid reader and the casual peruser interested in buying the merchandise. Thin is in, and unfortunately, until that changes, the photographers and designers are going to accentuate what some women wish they looked like instead of what they really do. It’s the same old catch: if I buy that...
...large number of formals at Harvard illustrates our obsession with capturing these perfect moments. I am not an avid photographer, but the few photos I do have of college show me with a date sporting my tuxedo before a dance. But no matter how much you like getting dressed up, one of the driving motivations behind our attendance at these dances is that we want to preserve them, in our minds and in our plenitude of photos, to remind us of a perfect evening. To a large extent, formals are about constructed moments...