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...surface the place appears to be merely a third-rate Chinese restaurant, and it is certainly that. For some, however, it’s also an equal-opportunity hotbed of bedlam, accommodating Harvard students and townies, men and women alike. The Kong has put rowdy Harvard students into contact with rowdy Cantabrigians like never before...
Taxing cell phone abuse will even help re-establish personal contact between people and prevent annoying friends from wasting your time since fines would give people an excuse to turn off their phones. Imagine telling that annoying ex, “Oh, I’m sorry you couldn’t reach me, I just didn’t want to be fined today...
...prevent Iraqi agents from making contact with al-Qaeda fanatics willing and able to carry out terror schemes inside the U.S., the FBI is expected to dust off a few tricks developed during the Cold War to "bumper-lock" - confuse and immobilize - the KGB. A favorite: waves of double-agents, called "cold walk-ins," approach enemy agents and "volunteer" for nasty missions. If the ploy works, the FBI has achieved a penetration. Sooner or later the walk-ins are revealed as plants. IF they're burned a few times, so the theory goes, the Iraqis will suspect and reject even...
...There is the big ice that covers the solid, continental block of East Antarctica to a depth, in places, of nearly three miles. And there is the middle-size ice of West Antarctica, much of which lies below sea level, so that its outermost fringes come into potentially perilous contact with seawater...
Dramatic space expansion will help us get more faculty members, which means more courses and more contact. More space for student housing might give more room to be productive and healthy. More high-tech classroom space could change the way Harvard professors are expected to teach. And with tough advocacy and a little bit of luck, I will come back for my reunion and walk into a student center. If the College does not get tossed aside, as it often is, new space in Cambridge will change our academic community forever...