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...Like their attire, the Ladies’ set list was eclectic, ranging from the newly-released Bush-bashing rhyme “Fun and Games” to the accordion-driven classic “If I Had A Million Dollars.” The band displayed its humorous bent, improvising a nonsensical song in the middle of discussion with the moderator, Tracy E. Nowski ’07, and playing soothing elevator music in the background as O’Brien rose to offer obligatory thank-yous. Laura M. Togut ’08, who described herself...
They're cute kids in an average sort of way: bouncy and bright-eyed, with stuffed animals, goofy-sized T-shirts and, of course, unformed minds that can be bent into strange shapes by determined mentors. It is the latter quality that preoccupies Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, co-directors of the well-made and very disturbing documentary, Jesus Camp...
Still, folks bent on retiring will find it difficult to resist thinking of a greatly appreciated home as the final piece of their call-it-quits puzzle. If you're of that mind, at least learn from the tech bubble. Would-be retirees who got bruised most back then were the ones who watched their technology stocks soar beyond expectations, enabling them to hit their savings goals ahead of schedule and quit work--but who failed to diversify and got stung when those stocks later plunged...
...surgery had subsided after Christmas, I began to suffer the bane of amputees: phantom limb pain. Sometimes I felt as if my fist was clamping tighter and tighter until my fingers were ready to explode. At other times, the Phantom could create the sensation of twisted fingers or a bent thumb...
...lack of better term—scholastic origin. It is true; the admissions process is a complex and unwieldy one. Surely mistakes are made in selection. That said, Bronshtein’s attack of admissions as lacking the truly “meritocratic” bent it should have is unfounded and represents the danger of parochial belief in what the Harvard student should be. The College prides itself on the breadth and depth of its student body, and, in attracting our generation’s best and brightest, strives to develop those students that they may become leaders...