Word: beasting
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...second answer is that if you want smaller government, you have to "starve the beast." Larger deficits increase the pressure for spending cuts. President Bush has actually said that deficits are a good thing because they put Congress in a spending "straitjacket." An essay by three conservative economists, including Nobel prizewinner Gary Becker, published in the Wall Street Journal in October, ranked starving the beast ahead of the Laffer Curve as a reason to cut taxes. But there is even less evidence that starving the beast works in real life than there is for supply-side theories. Two rounds...
...magazine struck gold in finding Mollie, who, luckily for this rag, has always been content-focused, though her keen aesthetic sense and inimitable style may lead some to assume otherwise. As Moll grabs hold of the reins of FM—an often unwieldy beast, even for someone as stubborn as Mollie, who insists on wearing patent leather Marc Jacobs pumps in a Nor’easter—she will take the magazine into a more modern age complete with full color covers and a professional redesign of every page...
Richard E. Freeman ’03-’05, a transfer student from Carnegie Mellon, posits that dissatisfaction is simply the nature of the beast, not a result of administrative negligence. “There is a lot of melodrama here,” he says. “Students criticize Harvard as a university, but the problems they cite are typical anywhere. They don’t realize this because they lack a different perspective...
...Currier House Musical Society presents this production of the classic story of a man-eating plant. Music and special effects were created by the composer and lyricist for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid. Through Nov. 16. 8 p.m. Tickets $9; $7 students and seniors; $5 Currier House residents. Currier House Fishbowl...
While Stempniak is a forward of average build who relies on speed, Jessiman is a 6’5 beast along the boards who is also able to clog the middle. In last year’s games against the Big Green, Welch often took the lead in matching Jessiman’s physical play, something he will be expected to continue when he returns to the Harvard lineup on Saturday...