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...won’t be online this term, they’ll be transmitted over the internet in the months following the course, which means they could become a black-market commodity for particularly enterprising students planning on taking (but skipping) the class next fall. Not only can we eschew going to class in favor of watching it online, we can now register for classes online, so that if we’re willing to fib on the registration form and risk disciplinary action, the first time our presence is ever really required on campus isn’t until...
...women players who maintain realistic limits, poker can be invigorating socially and even professionally. Jennifer Nichols, 25, a San Francisco public relations executive, hosts a Texas Hold 'Em party for her girlfriends every Monday night. The players, ages 21 to 28, dress sloppy, eschew makeup and dish over Desperate Housewives. "Everyone's so busy," she says, "but at the games my girlfriends and I really get to talk. And because it's considered a male game, other women think it's cool that...
Many skaters scheduled to perform in this weekend’s benefit show, An Evening With Champions (EWC), will eschew the Charles Hotel for “Hotel Harvard” and spend their weekends as guests in the upperclass Houses. “Some skaters stay in hotels and some on campus,” said Sasha D. Kukunova ’08, one of the liaisons between EWC and the skaters performing in the show, who is in charge of organizing this weekend’s housing. This year, EWC was able to obtain eight hotel rooms...
Fried said he hoped that Roberts would eschew his predecessor’s tendency to avoid excessive debate in favor of a “looser philosophy...
...seem to have moved, without skipping a beat, from blaming our parents for the ills of society to blaming our children," observes Thomas Hine, author of The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager. "We want them to embody virtues we only rarely practice. We want them to eschew habits we've never managed to break...