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...schedule and attend the best academic institution in the country. These five months have given me so many experiences and memories that have extended far beyond books and classes. Without Harvard’s generosity, I never would have had the opportunity to jump on the Red Sox bandwagon, row on the Charles River, tailgate before The Game, walk through the snow to class, or dine in the home of President Summers...
...doesn't sound like a profitable strategy. Yet more and more companies, pressured by activists and shareholders, are jumping on the do-gooder bandwagon. Some are finding that, done smartly, doing good can be good for business...
Harvard is perennially behind the curve, it seems. We still have finals in January. The administration only recently jumped on the study-abroad bandwagon. The women’s bathrooms still look vaguely temporary. But, perhaps most importantly, metrosexuality has only recently become ubiquitous among Harvard males. Hello? Can you say “three years ago?”I suppose I should be surprised that metrosexuality has taken hold at all at Harvard, considering our school’s seeming devotion to the glories of the Victorian male animal and all of its classical accoutrements (cigars, uncomfortable chairs...
...hardware manufacturers plan to release the first generation of DVD players this spring (probable asking price: $500 to $1,000), and computer makers are scrambling to produce new PCs equipped to play DVD-ROMs. What's less clear is how quickly Hollywood studios will clamber aboard the DVD bandwagon and release their movies on the untested new format. DVD's raison d'etre, after all, is to send VHS tapes and laser discs, the studios' cash cows, the way of all eight-tracks. This week's blizzard of dvd-themed press releases at the Las Vegas show should help reveal...
Perhaps my instinct to hop on the anti-Fork bandwagon (a smaller, more dilapidated wagon then the Fork model itself) stems from my attachment to word-of-mouth, an age-old method of discovery that necessitates… gasp…real human interaction on some level. If you sit alone and bulldoze through the recent reviews on Pitchfork, it seems to perpetuate the isolationist, ever-headphoned culture that I most concretely associate with those “discovering themselves” on Pitchfork. Spend that time talking and listening to music with other people, branch out and meet...