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...parents were in town this weekend, here to be impressed and tricked into believing that their hard-earned money wasn’t being squandered. I think it went well—they didn’t discover anything around my room that would reveal dubious aspects of my life, they bought me new clothes, and they saw Professors Sandel and Kirshner do their best stand-up comedy/teaching. However, the fact that they left happy had nothing to do with my ability to hide things or Bob Kirshner’s hilarious Tim Robbins impression. And it definitely had nothing...
This year, however, the results turned out much more favorably, though there were questions among the players concerning the dubious placements of the draw. Four of the five Crimson players in the tournament were cluttered together in the last quarter of the draw and had to play each other in the early rounds...
Before I start really criticizing study abroad, though, the inevitable disclaimer: I do not doubt that a few undergraduates every year have significant and rigorous experiences working at universities in other countries. And making general claims about the value of study abroad is a dubious science at best without solid studies to back them up. (Lack of evidence, incidentally, goes both ways—hopefully Harvard will compile a few of these before it sets anything in Curricular Review stone.) I also think that spending a semester or a year in a foreign country, no matter how inebriated...
...Initially as an economist, I’m dubious,” Freeman said, though he added that he thought unionization could be “feasible” under certain circumstances...
...once has a Princeton team finished below .500 in league play since it joined the Ancient Eight in 1956. With two more losses, this year’s edition of the Tigers would be ensured of that dubious honor. And if Princeton splits this weekend’s road trip to Columbia and Cornell—the most likely outcome of the two games—then Harvard would enter its game in New Jersey on the season’s last weekend with the chance to give the Tigers their record-setting eighth loss...