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This year’s crop of charm-seekers included curious freshmen, seniors partaking in their final moments of MIT tradition, graduate students seeking to brush up on social skills, a handful of Harvard students, and even MIT’s Beaver mascot...
LEAVE IT TO BEAVER THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON Beaver has become shorthand for 1950s naiveté. But as you can see over 39 episodes (TV seasons, like airline legroom, were more generous then), its picture of child-hood could be tart as well as sweet. When Beaver (Jerry Mathers) is worried that his teacher will hit him over a minor mess-up, Wally (Tony Dow) corrects him: "Only the coach can hit you." Beaver was never edgy, but it packed its own good-natured punch...
...foreigner who grew up without a television, one of Daver's biggest challenges was becoming fluent in U.S. culture and customs. So, to better relate to Americans, she spent countless hours watching re-runs of home-grown TV classics like "Leave It To Beaver," "Dallas," "Starsky and Hutch," "The Brady Bunch," and "Mash." From those shows, she learned about American language, slang, humor, and other pop-cultural references that she herself made use of to help break the ice and shoot the breeze with others in the dorms, and later, in corporate cafeterias...
...everyone else's, those bills are exploding. So, too, are future obligations, as the baby boomers prepare to leave their government jobs. This year New Jersey's State Health Benefits Program will cost taxpayers $1 billion for active workers and an additional $900 million for retirees, according to Fred Beaver, director of the Division of Pensions and Benefits. By 2010, the state will spend more on health care for retirees ($2.3 billion) than for active workers ($1.8 billion...
During his freshman year, he was written up in the MIT student newspaper, The Tech, for his involvement in the theft of a paw from the costume of MIT mascot Tim the Beaver. When an MIT sophomore removed part of the costume to climb on the John Harvard statue, a Harvard student stole the paw, which was mysteriously found in Gilligan’s Holworthy suite. The MIT newspaper chronicled attempts to recover the paw alternately through force and subterfuge...