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Eons ago—way back in the ’80s and ’90s—a band called Dinosaur Jr. roamed the earth. It was the master of its domain, known primarily for the ferocious noise it produced and grunge, the movement it helped spark. Yet in a move right out of “Jurassic Park,” Dinosaur Jr. has been revived ten years after the band’s last album with its original lineup. And just like that movie’s earthshaking, jeep-terrorizing T-rex, their new album...
...Secretary of Education, Margaret Spelling, is continuing with her push, backed by the bipartisan Commission on the Future of Education, to require colleges to evaluate how much students learn in college and publish the results of these tests in the public domain...
Second, once you do notice us, kindly refrain from cutting off our path away from your frenetic domain. Crosswalks are not actually street art; we have a quaint custom in this state whereby both horse-drawn and horseless carriages must yield to the crossing foot soldier. There are few sadder sights in the Square than that of a lonely student waiting politely for a car to pause for him on Mass. Ave. At even such tender young ages, we are forced to become hardened kamikazes on every perilous trip to the Harvard Box Office...
...charm of these images lies precisely in such imperfections: light leakages, unplanned compositions, flaws in focus and inadvertent exposures create an accidental art and a welcome change from the sometimes sterile domain of conventional fine-art photography. In fact, the pictures are so enchanting that you almost wish the publishers had reproduced them in larger than actual size. But it's a minor complaint, given the book's beauty. This "anthropology of the ordinary," as the authors put it, is nothing short of remarkable...
...current undergraduates, the Yard is seen as the exclusive residential domain of freshmen, with students moving into one of 12 Houses after their first year. Harvard currently places some upperclassmen in overflow housing outside of their assigned House, but all of those residences are located outside the Yard...