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...CRAVE HUMAN CONTACT" from Jan. 2 and a lengthier post on New Year’s Day ("as one chapter of loneliness closes, another vast empty year begins.... sad self-pitying existence") have both risen to the top of boredatlamont’s "week’s best" list. Other confessions—such as "I’m so depressed…I’m useless" from Jan 3rd—are dishearteningly frequent...
...this age of anonymous chat rooms and Lamont glory holes (now filled-in), the possibility of "human contact" is becoming much more distant. With the ever-strengthening communities that have formed on sites like boredatlamont (one writer excused himself on Monday night for dinner and assured other commentators that he would be back soon), online forums could institute a vicious cycle in which the most vulnerable students become reliant on virtual reality as their medium of contact...
...building, including Target Corp. and the now-bankrupt Globix Corp., but the property has been unoccupied since 2001, Larsen said. The Boston Business Journal reported that a possible $22 million sale of the property to Massachusetts-based Eastern Development LLC fell through earlier this summer, leading the company to contact Harvard. “We tried looking at a variety of strategic transactions and it emerged that Harvard was indeed the best buyer,” Larsen said. Although the company is unsure of Harvard’s plans for the building, Larsen labeled the purchase...
...don’t think this is that great a change in the sense that the house advisors have always been the first point of contact for questions students have about the department,” he said...
...from Jakarta to Lombok which left with his luggage but not him. "That's how terrorists blow up planes," he notes, asking not to be identified. "But [the airline] didn't even seem to care." Gugi Saputra, commercial director for Adam Air, says the airline would have tried to contact the passenger and that a porter may have removed the wrong bags by mistake. "We would never take off without a passenger who has checked in his bags," he says. On the subject of the Sulawesi crash, Saputra maintains that the jury is still out: "We always put safety first...