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...last Saturday when the Internal Revenue Service inaugurated its bubbly new monthly Problem Solving Day service. At 33 sites across the country, IRS auditors had their name tags and their best behavior on display as they sacrificed part of their weekend to help the taxpayers. And though it felt earnest and went over well with the people who came to be served, there may be nothing sadder than watching one of the world's last great bureaucracies give up its well-earned reputation as a hard...
...spent one restless night wondering, Who was this young lady with the purple spiky hair sleeping down the hall? But we hadn't encountered any real problems, and at that early date we were still confident in the arrangement. Not long after, our au pair odyssey began in earnest. It's no tale of tragedy, like that of Sunil and Deborah Eappen. But it is, I believe, an all too common experience, one that laid bare the flawed nature of au pair programs and underscored the chaotic state of child care...
When that happens--and some observers say the free-for-all will begin in earnest when Congress returns in January--the anti-Microsoft forces will come packing awfully hefty checkbooks. Even in the digital age, Washington is a Middle Eastern bazaar. The going is about to get tough, and it may be time for Bill Gates to go shopping...
Every attempt was made to include more than India in our forum. In fact, one of our main speakers, Dr. Siddiq Abdullah, is president of the Pakistani Association of the Greater Boston Area. We hope that next time our earnest attempts to represent all of South Asia are not forgotten. --Uttam K. Tambar '00, Academic-Political Chair, South Asian Association
...lines as well as in fantasy sequences depicting what Ally is thinking, the show edges toward absurdism. That's fine, but when a whole episode is devoted to the consequences of Ally's argument with a woman over a container of Pringles, it shouldn't climax with a deadly earnest, cliche-ridden feminist speech delivered by Dyan Cannon playing a judge. (In fact, probably no show should ever climax with a deadly earnest, cliche-ridden feminist speech delivered by Dyan Cannon playing a judge...