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...Europe, since federal and state gas taxes in the U.S. are inefficiently low. Now that oil prices around the world have fallen, it would be the best time to gradually start raising gasoline taxes, which would limit gas consumption, pollution, and congestion as well as motivate people to move closer to work or to demand more public transportation. Unlike regulations or rations, higher taxes would not take away personal freedoms, but they would bring in revenues that could be used to pay down debt and alleviate far-reaching concerns over the U.S. economy...
...false sense of familiarity with New England culture is only perpetuated, however, by most of the attempts we make to get closer to the real Massachusetts. PBHA vans shuttle eager students into poor areas of Boston on a daily basis. But the Harvard bubble is not geographical in nature; it is not something you can merely drive past. Such programs are staffed by familiar Harvard students who return thinking they have transcended the borders of the school, when in reality, they have only temporarily stretched them...
...overdo anything. That would just kill it.” Lacking an entirely coherent plotline, “The Birthday Party” relies on evoking emotion, rather than enjoyment, from the audience. Even the set design is minimalist. The stage features only walls on wheels, which move increasingly closer to each other as the play progresses. As with most absurdist dramas, “The Birthday Party” eschews a set in order to maintain focus on the dialogue between actors, thus relying on the cast’s abilities. “We are so lucky...
...Bowman said of the Spee. At the same time, Advocate member Millicent M. Younger ’10 and Dudley Co-op president Paul Nauert ’09 regretted the relative lack of ethnic diversity in their organizations, but pointed out that their groups are much closer to gender equity compared to the all-male final clubs. “They perpetuate an unequal gender-power dynamic at this school,” Herz-Roiphe said of final clubs. He suggested that either final clubs could become co-ed or that female final clubs could become more popular...
...analyzes the charred remains of Joan of Arc; a Sri Lankan tour guide who makes his living at the Temple of the Holy Tooth; a Syrian boy whose playground includes the al-Jami al-Kabir mosque in Damascus; and a Pakistani man who, when asked if he felt closer to Muhammad after beholding the Prophet's purported whiskers, simply replied, "Close? I cannot be close. I come to remind me how far it is I must...