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This past week, another chapter was added to the long, storied, and extremely arduous struggle to give Harvard students a social life. The saga began more than a decade ago with a valiant attempt known as “Loker Commons,” now an Ozymandias-esque monument to the power of Harvard’s wallet and the myopia of its foresight. The student body missed another chance for a centrally located student center when plans were announced, unchallenged, for a library administration building at 90 Mt. Auburn St., across the street from Felipe?...
...been for the hurricane, she would have already written the first chapter of her senior thesis on documentary films and politics in Latin America. As it stands, she’s not yet in touch with her adviser...
...newest member of the Manassas Mets, a summer baseball team fighting for the 2005 pennant in the local chapter of the National Adult Baseball Association. We have all woken up way too early on this Sunday morning and driven to a deserted field behind a church to take on Schourek?...
...have been a bone-dry survey of arcane financial instruments into a lively history of finance. Even more improbably, the book is gorgeous. You can see the crimson illumination on the Ligatio pecuniae and read the fine print on a futures contract from the Dutch West India Co. Each chapter is a minihistory written by stars like Niall Ferguson and Robert Shiller, who explain in rich prose the connections between Chinese pawnshops, Greek moneylenders and, ultimately, the cash in your pocket. --By Jyoti Thottam
...chronicling of Lydia's struggles is rather straightforward, but it is only one element of the novel. At the end of each chapter, Goldberg drops in imagined conversations between soldiers on leave or on their way to war, passages from a QD Soda newsletter and letters Driscoll wrote in his old age that illuminate the unethical rise of his beverage empire. Additionally, she excerpts actual news stories of the day. Lastly, in the margins of each page are voices from the dead commenting on or clarifying plot points. For example, when, early in the book, Henry fails to appear...