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Students battling the ever-increasing financial burden that is a Harvard education have found a new adversary this term: the $500 coursepack. While that sets in, it must be emphasized that this is not some premise for a Harvard-themed Twilight Zone episode or a cheesy horror movie à la Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. The $464.50 compendium of readings and articles for Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert Putnam’s Government 90qa, Community in America class is very real and currently available on the shelves of the Harvard Coop bookstore...
...that you may sleep at night unhindered by the burden of this deeply haunting matter, I will now lay to rest an age old question: The correct name for a polygon with 77 sides is a heptacontakaiheptagon. How in the olden days of 1992 a troubled geometer might have discovered this fact is a mystery to me—as is how someone of that era might have been able to find out who the namesake was for Ninendo video-game icon “Mario” (it’s Mario Segali, landlord of the company?...
...should be demanded of them, observes Jennifer Loh, a math teacher at Ursuline Academy in Dallas. "It's their way of saying to Mom and Dad, 'I'm not perfect.'" Though the best teachers work hard to inspire even the most alienated kids, they can't carry the full burden of the parents' expectations. In his dreams, admits Daddow, the Iowa history teacher, what he would like to say is "Your son or daughter is very, very lazy." Instead, he shows the parents the student's work and says, "I'm not sure I'm getting Jim's best effort...
...agree with him. Social Security maintains absolute trust because Americans know that only collectively can we guarantee that working America will not starve in its senescence. Social Security certainly needs to fix its balance sheets, but there are many ways to achieve this. Benefits could be reallocated, the tax burden of Social Security could be shifted, or the age at which benefits commence could be changed. These are all feasible options, and Democrats need to show Americans how many possible plans could keep the elderly secure in the latter half of the century...
...dining halls are rarely swarmed by the masses, there is a significantly increased feeling of House community. The roaming herds of anonymous first-years do little to enhance such a feeling in the “convenient” dining halls like Quincy, and they place an enormous burden on the dining hall staff trying to keep pace with their appetites and dirty dishes...