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Giving someone a shiny silver frame used to be a good way to avoid hunting down a real present. Not anymore. Thanks to the falling price of liquid-crystal display (LCD) screens and the fact that everybody has a digital camera, electronic-photo frames are popular gifts this year, ones that could earn you points with loved ones...
...Paris. 2. Street Safari. Though it’s normal for collections to have irredeemably stupid names, the flip side of appellations like “Street Safari” is that the clothes presented usually relate to such themes tangentially if at all. Yet Michael’s display in the final episode proved that—even if he did end up being the loser at Olympus fashion week—he definitely wins the “most unnecessarily literalist” award. His “Street Safari” collection actually featured standard safari gear...
...painting in Leverett Dining Hall. This garish work was commissioned by the Leverett House master in 1990. The artist, Jerald Webster, made three paintings and the master chose which one his house would display. I can only imagine how ugly the other two must have been. 2. The mural in Quincy Dining Hall. It’s like a really big, flat sand castle turned on its side and painted. Enough said. 3. Laurence Tribe’s paintings. Why is a superstar professor of constitutional law painting pictures to illustrate constitutional history? And why are they...
...Furthermore, spillover creates another problem. Younger brains are still developing and thus at higher risk from alcohol. Drinking from an early age can even inhibit the brain’s neurological defense against alcoholism. Unsurprisingly, then, those who start drinking before age 15 are four times more likely to display symptoms of that disease. Self-selection probably plays a role in that result, but it is better to spare high school freshmen from potential danger...
...credit to students based on their potential earnings rather than their parents’ current finances. His company gained infamy in March 2005, when The Crimson wrote an editorial calling for a boycott of DormAid, arguing that use of their dorm-cleaning service was “an obvious display of wealth that would establish a perceived, if unspoken, barrier between students of different economic means.” The Crimson editorial led to a New York Times article and an interview for Kopko on Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show...