Word: doorstop
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...when your lab partner turns to you outside Old Quincy C and asks for ID, try not to be belligerent. After all, you may look very different without safety goggles. So when running down to the basement to get laundry, the temptation to use your QR textbook as a doorstop may be overwhelming, but resist! Chances are that your late-night visitor isn’t the cute senior from that party last weekend but instead someone who only loves you for one thing: your iPod. After all, Prince Charming knows to knock...
...scientifically conclude that there was once again a demand for completely one-sided, marginally-useful, and vaguely-humorous course advice. So we’re back. Well now that you have us in your hand, how can you make the most of us? Three uses come to mind: Projectile. Doorstop. Course guide. We prefer the latter, but it’s up to you. In these 28 pages, you’ll find writeups on every Core area and 21 concentrations (those of over 80% of the student body). On the web, you can also find reviews of many individual...
...request and receive an obscene amount of grant money to do research and then blow most of it at a strip club in Paris? If you answered yes to these questions, then you will probably win a Hoopes prize. If not, you can always use your thesis as a doorstop. Meanwhile, just hobnobbing with the department’s gliteratti is autograph request-inducing, though, and includes New Yorker writers Jill Lepore and Larry Summers’ pal Louis Menand. Ask, and they may even advise your thesis.History and Literature is a program that is truly unique to Harvard...
...noting that they exclude many of his favorite articles. “If a book’s going to be heavy, it can be a little heavier. Let’s face it, there are some heavy doors, and if you’re going to have a doorstop, you might as well have the heaviest.” Nor is he beyond lambasting his own writing. “I criticize my own sentences as I’m about to write them to make them as perfect as I possibly can. I think...
...BEST RECIPES IN THE WORLD/ MARK BITTMAN To put together this ambitious doorstop of a book, Bittman, author of How to Cook Everything, spent six years in 44 countries searching for the 1,000 international dishes that were perfectly au point. His finds highlight such local flavors as salads from Turkey (bulgur and tomato with nuts) and Scandinavia (beets with horseradish) and lamb dishes from Greece (leg with thyme and orange), India (marinated lamb "Popsicles" with fenugreek cream sauce) and the Middle East (lamb burgers). The recipes are concise and inspiring and manage to make the sometimes exotic seem familiar...