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Blustery blizzards on Saturday, sweltering sunshine on Tuesday—seems like Cambridge’s weather is as loony as its panhandlers. To get to the bottom of our freaky climate, FM checked out ye olde bastion of meteorological knowledge: The Old Farmer’s Almanac. The paperback tome, published annually since 1792, purports to predict a year’s worth of America’s weather. This year, things look especially grim for Beantown. Come winter, Harvardians can look forward to reading period, latkes at Hillel, and “much greater than normal?...
...Bush's White House is a conundrum, a bastion of telegenic idealism and deep cynicism. The President has proposed vast, transformational policies-the remaking of the Middle East, of Social Security, of the federal bureaucracy. But he has done so in a haphazard way, with little attention to detail or consequences. There are grand pronouncements and, yes, crusades, punctuated with marching words like evil and moral and freedom. Beneath, though, is the cynical assumption that the public doesn't care about the details-that results don't matter, corners can be cut and special favors bestowed...
Hilles Library I loved. That palace of glass, that heirloom of Radcliffe, eyrie of learning, bastion of browsing, birthdom of our memories, is now left decimated by the faceless hordes of Harvard College, tomes torn up for fancy résumés and paper airplanes. Dark Age gargoyles, awful epigones: Weep, you undergraduates, if you have tears to spill...
...weighed the possibilities, considered the uncharted territory and then began to think the unthinkable. I clutched a copy of Zeppelin II. Was there really something beyond the long hair and loud guitars? Did all the vague lyrics really add up to anything? Could the last true bastion of cool be hiding beneath a cloak of lame...
...Fahd's rule, which now passes to his half-brother Crown Prince Abdullah, was marked by an effort to balance his country's traditionalist religious faith with the imperative to build a modern state. A fan of the U.S., he transformed the once primitive desert kingdom into a gleaming bastion of skyscrapers and expressways and oversaw a massive expansion of Islam's two holiest mosques, in Mecca and Medina. He worked to open education to women and in 1990, in a move that fueled a backlash among fundamentalists, agreed to be host to 500,000 U.S. troops during the first...