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...only these, anyway—but rather a lack of space in the beds themselves. Perhaps it was Harvard’s intention to promote undergraduate chastity by supplying such inadequate sleeping arrangements; if it was, however, the college has failed. Students still pair up after parties and crash with their significant others—they just do so uncomfortably. Some have gone to great lengths to secure a comfortable night’s sleep. Harvard needs to recognize the needs of its students and satisfy them...
What gives with Visa? One possibility is that the company and its investment bankers are deluded and the IPO will crash and burn--but the current thinking on the Street is that it won't have trouble finding buyers. Another is that the financial types who've been crying crisis have been crying wolf. But the housing market is in its worst slump since the Depression. Some debt markets have completely stopped functioning. The overindebted American consumer is showing signs of great stress...
...Muse ’11. Muse said that the burglar then asked her for a person whose name she did not recognize. “I got really freaked out, so I locked my [bedroom] door,” said Muse. “Then I heard a loud crash, and the door slammed.” When Muse walked out of her bedroom into the common room, she said that she noticed that her roommate’s television and laptop were missing. The victim, who declined to comment on the incident, was not present at the time...
Ballard liked to think of his books as radical, "a desperate attempt to prove ... that two and two made five in the moral arithmetic of the 1960s." Many critics preferred old-fashioned math, though, and by the time of Crash, his 1973 tale of erotic pleasures amid the carnage of car wrecks, even his own publisher's view was that "this author is beyond psychiatric help." As if to prove that a new moral compass was at work in inner space, Ballard's book attracted little controversy until 23 years later, when the shock-horror director David Cronenberg brought Crash...
...said. “Brad and Evan were just being physical down there, playing as well as I’ve ever seen them play.”“Princeton isn’t really a big team so we thought we could crash the boards effectively,” Unger said.And crash the boards they did. The Harvard big men dominated play on the inside, as the team put in 17 second-chance points (Princeton had six) and held the advantage on points scored in the paint (46 to 36). The duo combined to shoot...