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...mention all this because, as I begin this reading period, the calendar reads 2001. A semester from now, I will graduate from Harvard (assuming the thesis and the last Core course chug along fine). Next year, I will not have this knowledge-gathering period, this peculiar pause when there is much to be learned--about friends, out-of-the-way places, and what will stick with you years from now. College itself is a vacation, a chance to take a long view and get immersed in a subject in a way few jobs allow. To my pleasant surprise...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Taking It All In | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

Minimalism's master entrepreneur is up to his Fifth Symphony, a multicultural choral fresco on spiritual texts, newly recorded by Dennis Russell Davies and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Like all Glass's other pieces, it consists of the chug-chug repetition of slowly shifting harmonies, ad infinitum and ad nauseam. Alas, what sounded fresh (or at least different) 20 years ago is now as agonizingly familiar as a Hemingway parody. Same old same old same old same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Symphony No. 5, | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

...name of the game is beer pong, which features two players, each trying to hit a ping pong ball into his opponentis cup. If a ball lands in the beer, the loser has to chug as fast as humanly possible. Generally, once a player starts drinking, his coordination suffers all the more, and he just keeps right on losing. But Brinton actually gets better as play continues...

Author: By P.a. Steciuk, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Avoiding Alcohol at Sigma Chi | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

...Sometime in the late nineties the train picked up speed. It was powered by extreme cynicism and quite a bit of BOLD text. Chugga chug...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Groovy Train | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

...upcoming presidential race continues to chug along, hauling a couple of stiff-necked Democrats and a slightly more colorful mix of Republican contenders. And for the most part, it has been a two-car train. The Reform Party--that alternative caboose that rode so visibly in 1992 and 1996--has been conspicuously lagging behind...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: The Reform Party Adrift | 9/29/1999 | See Source »

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