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During my FOP trip, right before my freshman year at Harvard, my FOP leader gave me my first dose of Harvard lore. “There are three areas necessary for a happy, successful college life,” he said. “Academics, extracurricular activities, and a social life. At Harvard, you can only pick two.” As an intrepid, self-confident first year, I pooh-poohed his antiquated adage—surely there were some people who found a way to have it all. This is Harvard...
...their secret will soon be out. The dining room is larger that it first appears, since the old Young and Yee kitchen is now on the side and opened up, a move that allows for a nice set of tables and windows at the back and provides a fresh dose of Western transparency to the cooking process. A smallish bar and row of stools for window seating add extra choices for quick meals or late-night imbibing...
...jokes. And with good reason. Breiter’s studies involved injecting up to 40mg of “government grade” cocaine (“the stuff that the government approves for sale for research,” he explains) into each subject. An enormous dose for non-users, 40mg is about mid-range for most addicts. Breiter says that though the addicts “all got high off [the 40mg], it’s less than some street doses because when most addicts buy cocaine they use it all in one sitting. Very few users...
Franken expects to dole out a healthy dose of graduation wisdom...
This year’s April Fools Day brought its usual dose of idiocy, along with some semi-amusing pranks, some good one-liners, and one of two jokes that were actually convincing, if only for a minute or two. But I think my favorite of this year’s crop of April Fools jokes has to be the article the Yale Daily News (YDN) ran, in which reporter “Art Anderson” (a reference, of course, to the beleaguered accounting firm involved in the Enron debacle) reported that Yale’s endowment had taken...