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...Otherside Café on Newbury Street teems with flannel-wearing, skateboard-riding,     scruffy-bearded hipsters. It’s the perfect place to fit in with people who avoid fitting in and to get away from the “conventional?? Harvard polo and seersucker...

Author: By JONATHAN B. STEINMAN, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Geek-Chic | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

...term will be completely and totally optional—if students want to stay home for five weeks and do nothing, that’s a great thing.” Potential offerings Harris suggested included the practical—classes on PowerPoint; the less conventional??such as metalsmithing; and the academic—introductory Japanese or English seminars. “There needs to be a wide range of things, from demanding to less demanding,” Harris said. The question of whether to allow internship recruiting during J-term was raised, with opponents calling...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover and Josh M. Zagorsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: UC Considers New List of J-Term Classes | 4/7/2008 | See Source »

...Structure of Evolutionary History, also follow this fascinatingly digressive, metaphorical route. His famous monthly column in National History magazine began in January 1974 and ended in January 2001, upon the “fortuitous” publication of the 300th essay. Gould calls them “popular, conventional??essays, mostly dealing with evolution in one way or another.” Evolution, he declares, is “one of the subjects which has really captured popular imagination and still does. It explains so far as science has access to these questions, why we?...

Author: By Tiffany I. Hsieh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A History of Life | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

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