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...Czar oversees the planning of the Freshman Formal along with the First Year Social Committee, a group of eager frosh hand-chosen by the fun czar and Freshman Dean’s Office. (Elections for the committee were quietly ended in 2007.) My sophomore year, as vice-chair of the College Events Board, I was lucky enough to chaperone the swanky formal at the Charles Hotel, where freshmen enjoyed an open bar of soft drinks and bottled water. Unfortunately for fun at Harvard, the Fun Czar at the time forgot to request that, at a certain point, the bartenders serve...
...used the site in the past. “Informally, anecdotally, I do notice that there tends to be more open conversation about it amongst my gay friends than amongst my straight friends,” says Marco Chan ’11, Co-Chair of Harvard College Queer Students and Allies. While he is less certain that online dating is truly more prevalent in Harvard’s gay community, he does suggest a possible reason. “To some extent, being queer makes you more keenly aware of the fact that the dating pool statistically, numerically, will...
...past Observer glories and readings from its archive. (Wisely, nobody attempted the 26,000-word leading article published in 1956, a translation of Nikita Khrushchev's famous speech attacking Joseph Stalin.) "Are there any more questions?" asked David Mitchell, a British comedian and Observer supporter, who was drafted to chair the meeting. "Yes," came a voice. "What do we do next?" "Literally," answered Mitchell, "we all go and have a drink." Nobody present offered up a better plan...
...worry. That's really, really bad," Dr. Richard Besser, former acting director of the CDC, said at a recent government flu conference. "You can tell immediately in the body language, if you've ever said that to someone. When they do this" - he leaned back in his chair, crossing his arms over his chest - "then you lost 'em." (See five things you need to know about the outbreak...
...Honduran coup leaders who ousted President Manuel Zelaya this summer. But "President Chávez and his bloc of allies all want to consolidate power, neutralize any opposition and remain in office beyond their elected terms," says Robert Rivard, editor of the San Antonio Express-News and chair of the IAPA committee on freedom of expression, which held an emergency forum in Caracas over the weekend. "They probably can't gain the kind of grip on their respective countries without passing laws to legitimize their moves and limit independent media...