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...healthy human beings? Do the devices that make it possible to do so many things at once truly raise our productivity or merely help us spin our wheels faster? Over the past five years, psychologists, efficiency experts and information-technology researchers have begun to explore those questions in detail. They have begun to calculate the pluses, the minuses and the economic costs of the interrupted life--in dollars, productivity and dysfunction. More important, they're exploring what can be done about it--how we can work smarter, live smarter and put our beloved gadgets back in their proper place, with...
Some of these financially inclined economics concentrators have for years wondered aloud why Harvard refuses to offer undergraduate courses in business. Last week, their concerns made the front page of this newspaper, which reported in detail the plight of the 45 undergraduates who this semester made the twice-weekly trek to MIT to take “Corporate Financial Accounting and Reporting.” In the words of one such student, “it would be so much more convenient if Harvard offered an accounting course...
...When you have three or four weapons, you try to take three of those weapons away, eventually, if you don’t pay attention to detail, one of those guys...will hurt you,” Dartmouth coach Terry Dunn said. “They got three guys that scored a total of 62 out of 78 points...
...packed bus. Frank L. Washburn ’08, one of these disappointed students, quickly sent out an e-mail over the Quincy House open list sarcastically entitled “I love the UC,” which explained what had happened to him in biting detail. “I proceeded to the front of the line, presenting my ticket—but the bus driver joyfully informed me that there was no room for my luggage,” Washburn wrote, adding that he had been told there would be no limits on luggage...
...Goblet of Fire is better than the book [Dec. 5]. As beautiful as the movie is, it sorely lacks the true magic of the book. Corliss noted that the film is better because it "telescopes the book's first 100 pages into a thrilling 20 minutes." But without the detail of those 100 pages, the beginning of the movie is disjointed, sketchy and no doubt confusing to those who haven't read the book. The film falls flat. As for the idea that the book is perhaps overlong, if a book is an excellent read, it can never...