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...theses is waning in many departments, [see page 1], the trend may be reflected in the advice seniors receive. One senior tutor says he advises those who come to him with doubts about their thesis to drop it unless they find it exciting. "I've seen too many seniors drag their ass through February and March, not getting anything out of it, because they didn't have the courage to drop it in January," he says...
...hard to know how many seniors drag their ass through February and March wishing they didn't have a thesis to write. The most telling statistic is probably the number who drop their thesis (about 14 this year in Reyes's Government Department, for example), but that doesn't take into account the seniors who want very much to drop their thesis but don't. The discontent of thesis-writing seniors is apparent to friends, of course--thesis writers are wont to stumble bleary-eyed into a dining hall and gripe about their work--but often invisible to official Harvard...
...short slide into unredeemed offensiveness (short of breaking outright with all-male tradition, which, as a Theatrical co-producer explained two years ago, would result in "pressure to present a great musical") is to make everything else equality ridiculous. That way, the show doesn't need to depend on drag jokes or anti-homophile inferences--in fact, they can be eliminated entirely. Instead, in show in which royal banquets where "the liquor flows like wine" are interrupted by would-be regicides with wooden spoons ("to stir the people to rebellion"), the chorus-line becomes one more irrelevant frill, part...
...transcendent political reality, an uncompromisable issue. Many here spend over twenty hours in NSCAR's plenary sessions and workshops. Some sleep in the basement of B.U.'s Hayden Hall, where the conference meets; some travel to cheap housing at other area colleges. Long hours of haggling over dubious matters drag out time, but the people's time, the time of freedom, equality and justice, is said to be just around the corner. A few call this "the most exciting experience of my life...
...million from the U.S. Treasury to keep going. The Labor Department reckons that as many as 30 other states may have to follow suit within the next two years. To keep their systems solvent, some states are now raising the tax on employers. That will put a further drag on the economy by draining needed capital away from business, or give an added lift to inflation if companies are able to pass the tax boost on to the customer in the form of higher prices...