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...similar tensions persist. In modern times, the problems are somewhat less dramatic: traffic cones appear on the heads of historic statues; brainless students launch themselves off the famous Magdalene Bridge, surprised when they need an ambulance to haul them out the shallow river; annoying crowds wait in line to enter the town’s few clubs, only to spill out a few hours later and leave their drunken mess on the sidewalk. But even these trivialities draw out the old complaints about the encroaching student population.So, forgive me for thinking that Cambridge-Harvard relations aren’t really...
...which audience members, many of them law students or graduate students in computer science, asked about topics ranging from patents to Microsoft’s practices. In response to a question about women’s role in technology advancement, Smith said that more females should be encouraged to enter technical fields. “We are discussing steps that we can take as an industry to encourage women to pursue these careers and stay in them,” he said...
...group is trying a variety of tactics. Gilchrist is running in a special election to fill a House seat that became available when Bush appointed Christopher Cox, who represented Gilchrist's district, to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Although Gilchrist decided to enter the race only three weeks before the October primary, in which 16 other candidates were running, he won 14.8% of the vote. That earned him a place in the runoff on Dec. 6 against Republican John Campbell...
...Rent”’s main characters accept poverty as both a necessary byproduct of refusing to sell out and a hip way to spend one’s youth. The characters live their bohemian lives right next to a massive homeless community, but the homeless enter the film—with one exception—only as extras or in rhetoric. The makers of “Rent” understand that homelessness is a problem in Alphabet City, but they choose to focus their energies on the artists next door.To be fair, not every character...
...somehow did not understand their cosmic fate, cheering and rejoicing as Harvard threw Handsome Dan a bone in the form of a 21-3 lead and letting him glimpse what it feels like to be a success. But as all the optimistic little Yale graduates will learn when they enter the real world, Harvard will always be one rung above. And then Yale’s lead burned into oblivion, not unlike the Sterno-lit tablecloth at the Branford College tailgate. After letting Yale have their pity points, Harvard regained its composure—it’s hard...