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Hints of late-morning vodka and the buzz of rivalrous housing chants wafted in front of Annenberg Hall yesterday as residents of Harvard’s 12 undergraduate Houses welcomed freshmen to their newly assigned residences.“We’re hot, we’re drunk, we’re going to the Quad!” chanted a horde of Cabot residents before a line of freshmen waiting to get inside the dining hall.A menagerie of House mascots paraded the surrounding lawn, only adding to the morning’s competitive atmosphere.The Mather Gorilla, who declined...
...international Development. Visa's U.S. revenue grew a healthy 23% in fiscal year 2007, but its international revenue soared 57% over 2006. And as formerly cash-based economies in South Korea, China and India embrace the new electronic forms of payments - mobile phone-based transactions are garnering the most buzz - Visa's money-making opportunities are enormous...
None of this means Spitzer was a blameless victim of chemistry. Sometimes hubris is just hubris. But humans habituate to thrills, which means needing more and more to get the same buzz. "You want to re-create the high, so you up the ante," says neuropharmacologist Candace Pert. And as Spitzer learned, when you risk everything, you can lose...
Whatever it is they offer--buzz, cool, a psychological boost--Clinton needed it. So it was unsurprising, if a little weird, to see her staffers injecting SNL into their talking points the following Monday. See, Mom? TV criticism is a real...
...then this scene would fade into a picture of the same Scholz Garten 36 years ago. The hair is shaggier, the eyeglasses bigger, but the buzz is the same. It's all about insurgency and outsiders and change and down with Establishments. McGovern, Gary Hart, Howard Dean, Obama - at Scholz's, fresh candidates' faces are always on tap. The only difference is that Hillary Clinton was hip to it 36 years ago and she's a victim of it today. This film is about coming full circle, and like all such tales, it is thick with poignancy. After 10 straight...