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...Term will officially begin on Jan. 4, but we at FlyBy know better than anyone that it will be difficult to make the coming three weeks into anything other than a colossal waste of time. So, in the spirit of genuine or—who are we kidding?—feigned intellectualism, we've compiled a list of reading recommendations from several campus mailing lists. We've also provided, of course, the requisite value judgment on each title...
FlyBy was relegated to chatting it up with the Club President David E. Treworgy MBA '93 and Radcliffe Affairs VP Irene Wu '91, who giddily broke down the organizational structure of the HAA. To be honest, it was actually pretty enjoyable. Better than hearing about how much better it was when the undergraduate Houses had real personalities (and when Adams had a pool). As FlyBy told our tax lawyer, a Matherite: They still find a way to make students love their Houses. Somehow...
...name) actually turned out to be an awkward, relaxing mixer. The Harvard Club of Toronto was very welcoming of everyone from lowly frosh to retired alumni, and no one was ever left out of a circle, fiddling with a glass and looking confused. Definitely one of the better networking events we've submitted ourselves to. Good job, Toronto, good...
...more than 20 non-relatives in his house, all of them people who had nowhere else to go. "They belong to weak tribes, and most of them are not well-educated. For that reason, they sometimes wind up in the conflict zones, because they don't know better...
...targeted a gym at the base and appears to have simply walked in. Says Bruce Reidel, a former CIA officer and author of President Obama's first Afghanistan-Pakistan review: "This underscores the Afghan war is going to be long and costly. The enemy has come to know us better than we know them. Reversing that intelligence gap is imperative and hard to do." (See pictures of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, leader of the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan...