Word: centralizes
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Major Henry Higginson must be lonely. One of the all-time best friends of undergraduates is stuck presiding over the central stairway of the Barker Center, watching students dash in and out while faculty members toil in quiet offices. The man who chose central heating over lavish furnishings to create a common space that would make all undergrads feel comfortable has been forced to watch his club be converted into an office building for professors...
Administrators would desperately love us to believe, and believe themselves, that the house system responds to this lack of community space for undergraduates. Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 says the system of "13 separate dining halls, JCRs, etc., is far more costly [than a single, central union is] and leads to a much greater sense of community. Harvard does have interhouse dining and groups do meet in the houses...
...Methods of paper distribution will change. With increased personalization of newspapers, distribution will become more costly. Newsprint papers will probably still exist and individual copies will still be sold at central locations. However, personalized newspapers sent electronically to households and printed within the home will develop. Startup services like InfoBeat and Point-Cast will work with and compete with major-metro dailies to provide such services...
NUTTY THE FRIENDLY DUMP OCCUPATION: Imaginary friend of Jimmy the Idiot Boy BEST PUNCH: John Kricfalusi, creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show, claimed Mr. Hankey, who appeared on Comedy Central's South Park, is similar to his Web-based character...
While political radicalism at Harvard has declined since the 1969 takeover of University Hall and the 1972 storming of Mass. Hall, issues of ideology and political justice remain central to the thinking of Crimson staff, just as they are still considered by the University community as a whole...