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Awkward Harvard students, always eager to avoid actual social interaction, seem to love any technology that allows them to skirt face-to-face communication. The Facebook lets us eschew talking for poking, and now, a Somerville company has decided to jump on the bandwagon. Enter Wiffiti, LocaModa’s brainchild, a program made up of a series of digital billboards in public locations where people can post text messages for free, displaying their messages for all to see. The posts appear in random positions and different sizes on the board, reminiscent of writings on a bathroom wall. Harvardians itching...
...those days are gone. The main reason the American South, fiscal conservatives, and religious nuts were able to jump on the same bandwagon was because of the charisma and Southern Baptist heritage of President Clinton. Alas and alack, he cannot run again, and the last time I checked, the 2000 Presidential Election pretty clearly demonstrated that America didn’t want a Clinton White House without a Clinton...
...schools of thought then: the breaks even out and the Big Red will soon find its way into the endzone or the squad is jinxed. I’m not superstitious or anything, but I suspect the latter. I’m off the bandwagon. Pass the salt...
...unheard in America. Presiding over a government guilty of human rights abuses is also Khatami’s responsibility, and one he should not be allowed to escape under any circumstances.But if Governor Romney, the Harvard Dems, the HRC, or any of the scores of journalists on the same bandwagon are prepared to take Khatami to task for his wrongdoings, let us see the same pursuit of all who commit human rights abuses, attack gays, or break international law. In a liberal democracy we should be careful to tar all those who need it with the same brush, no exceptions...
...increase a school’s yield—the percentage of admitted applicants who choose to enroll there. Yield is often used as a barometer of a school’s attractiveness. Cuseo said she would not be surprised if Yale University also jumped on the single-deadline bandwagon because they “have the luxury of it not having much of an impact on their yield.”Yale boasted a yield of 71 percent this past year—far behind Harvard’s front-of-the-pack 80 percent mark but ahead...