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Sometimes I feel that house life is the purest expression of happiness we have at Harvard, because whatever we do within our houses, we do for our own enjoyment. Ordinarily, we are quick to sacrifice sleep and meals and socializing upon the altar of a distant future, but in our houses we celebrate the present. The fact that we give so much of our time—which we seem to value above all other things—to make our living environments better is as heartening as it is unexpected...
...Scrabble soap opera went viral earlier this year when both Hasbro and Mattel filed lawsuits against two brothers from Calcutta for launching "Scrabulous," their own online version of the popular word game. Created in 2006 to waste time and wage distant linguistic battles, Scrabulous eventually became the most popular application on Facebook, attracting more than 500,000 players each day to the social-networking site. But the brothers, Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla, had a quick and clever response to the accusations of copyright infringement. Their newly dubbed "WordScraper" now features a malleable board that, if one feels so inclined...
...election in February. Polls show conservative Likud Party candidate and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holding a solid lead over acting Prime Minister Tzipi Livni, with Defense Minister Ehud Barak - who ordered the Hebron raid on the same day his Labor Party held its primary election - running a very distant third. But their impact on other players in the West Bank may be profound: the actions of the Hilltop Youth were condemned and strongly discouraged by the long-established settler leadership of the Yesha Council, who recognized that young settlers being seen to use violence against the Israeli state...
...officially in a recession now, but we may still think back upon a happier economic time for instruction: prosperous, distant 2005. In that year, two executives of the multi-national manufacturing firm Tyco received prison sentences for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the company for various personal purposes—most infamously, former chief executive officer L. Dennis Kozlowski’s $6,000 shower curtain. These sentences—ranging from 8 1/3 to 25 years of incarceration—were considered forceful messages to other executives tempted to skim off their company’s bottom...
...field of extracurricular activities. The Harvard student with a coherent five-year plan to get into a top law school, featuring specific courses and activities, is far from a rarity. The obvious danger within this approach, which lies in using our free time as a mere means to a distant end, is to run the risk of forgetting what truly interested us in the first place...