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...that’s how we got Loker Pub Nights, after all. What bothers me about all the complaining we do is that some students really feel entitled to moan about Harvard as though they deserve waterslides, cable in every dorm room, and course reading lists that only contain picture books. A lot of us undergraduates need to get some perspective. Sure, Harvard has some lousy advisors, unintelligible TFs, and a sometimes muted party scene, and the University needs balanced criticism (see below). But be fair—Harvard does a better job teaching, housing, feeding and caring...
...article came about, Michael Isikoff, the magazine's best-known investigative reporter, became aware that a Pentagon probe was under way and phoned "a longtime reliable source, a senior U.S. government official who was knowledgeable about the matter." The source told him that the report would contain the Koran incident. Looking for confirmation, Isikoff approached a spokesman for the Pentagon's Southern Command, which operates the Guantánamo prison. The spokesman declined to comment. John Barry, the magazine's national-security correspondent, took the unusual step of providing a draft of the item to a "senior Defense official." According...
...writing Gretchen Wilson's underclass anthem Redneck Woman and the winningly lewd Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy) for his own duo, Big & Rich. Now Rich is putting his skills behind an act that tweaks Nashville's two greatest taboos--race and musical tradition--and he can barely contain himself. "Cowboy Troy is the only 6-ft. 5-in. black rapping cowboy I've ever met!" says Rich. "We think he's going to be a groundbreaking, multiplatinum artist...
...with their food - and their teacher is delighted. The kids, 11- and 12-year-olds from the town of Laventie in northern France, finger fleshy chunks of mango with fascination and wince as they suck on lime slices. During the course of the morning, the class learns that fruits contain minerals, fiber, sugar and vitamins. "Who knows why we need vitamin C?" asks Carole de Bailleul, a nutritionist employed by the local school district. Three hands shoot up. "Without it we become tired," answers Margo Demarey, with gleeful enthusiasm. If only more of Europe's children knew as much about...
Soft drinks alone don't make Americans fat, says the Journal of Pediatrics, but it doesn't help that the two cans of soda a typical teen drinks daily contain 20 teaspoons of sugar...