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...Facebook), and planned a convenient time and place to “accidentally” bump into her—outside the Science Center at about 11:00 a.m. So if you see a guy creeping around the Science Center wearing a pink Polo shirt with a Chicago Cubs cap and holding a Hallmark “I’m sorry about your dead pet rodent” card, wish me luck, but please, don’t turn me in to the police. Eric A. Kester ’08 is an anthropology concentrator in Winthrop House...
...with Mexico's underdogs, especially when he stumps for deeper reform of Mexico's epically corrupt public life (though his own party had hardly been immune to graft in recent years). He promises to slash not only his presidential salary but push for a Constitutional amendment to cut and cap those of all high-ranking government officials. "You can't have a rich government and a poor population!" he insists in his speeches. "We have to transform the way we conduct politics here, without the arrogant, mediocre, lying thieves who injure this country more than any other problem Mexico...
...Despite some recent rate hikes - low-fare titan Southwest Airlines just broke its four-year one-way cap of $299 - fares across the industry, adjusted for inflation, are no higher than they were in the 1980s and 15% below those of 2000. Demand is up too: in 2005 over 75% of seats were full. But with rising fuel costs pinching the bottom line, the airlines are looking to boost revenue in other ways - by charging for amenities that used to be free...
...heavy cost. More likely then not, the secondary field option will unduly pressure students to make curricular choices that will ultimately leave them less satisfied. The game theory dynamic is unavoidable. Dog eats dog in the Harvard world, and graduating without this additional feather in one’s cap will be frowned upon soon enough. Once there is a secondary field option in place, and as a few students begin to opt into it, a large number of students will quickly feel compelled to do so as well. Harvard is currently one of the few bastions of higher education...
...conversation touched upon the absence of a salary cap in baseball and the negotiation of famously lucrative player contracts. Boras is well-known for negotiating the highest paying contract in baseball history, a ten-year, $252 million contract for New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez...