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...cause it’s what you learn outside the classroom that counts, right?) There are the awful, predictable theme columns—Fifteen Lessons Harvard Has Taught Me, or Sixty-Eight Life-Changing Things to Do Before You Graduate. And then there are the weirdly angry columns that crop up from time to time—How Harvard Does Women/Blacks/Conservatives/Me Wrong, Why I Hate Everyone Here and so forth...
...produced a string of electric cars, is expected to be the first U.S. manufacturer to introduce a hybrid vehicle. I took the politically correct version of the six-cylinder Escape for an exclusive spin earlier this month. Meanwhile, Toyota, General Motors and Chrysler have all promised a new crop of hybrid vehicles by 2004. J.D. Power & Associates, which tracks consumer tastes for the auto industry, expects that by 2006, American consumers will be buying half a million hybrids a year...
...film’s beguiling worldview, young infatuation is pure and real, unsullied by the nuptial-obsession of elders (Caroline, Sam’s family). We can appreciate Ringwald’s youthful charm and honesty anew, and see how she stands head-and-shoulders above the curent crop of teen movie queens/Maxim models...
...regulating rather than prohibiting the marijuana market, America can benefit greatly from tax revenue brought in by shops like these. The marijuana trade, estimated by some to be the biggest cash crop in the United States, would generate revenues in the billions with a moderate tax of 50 cents per joint. Even with higher taxes, the legally distributed marijuana would still undercut the illegal prices because black market price inflation is so high. Thus decriminalization would eliminate the black market for marijuana...
...April Fools Day brought its usual dose of idiocy, along with some semi-amusing pranks, some good one-liners, and one of two jokes that were actually convincing, if only for a minute or two. But I think my favorite of this year’s crop of April Fools jokes has to be the article the Yale Daily News (YDN) ran, in which reporter “Art Anderson” (a reference, of course, to the beleaguered accounting firm involved in the Enron debacle) reported that Yale’s endowment had taken a billion dollar...