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...start of a new semester, there’s only one big test to worry about—the much-feared “pinch test.” Weeks in Lamont eating Fritos and the obligatory post-exam drinking binge make fingering that roll of flab around the middle a depressing prospect come February. For those of you hoping to find your six-pack in time for spring break in Cancun without actually going to any of those kick-boxing classes at the MAC (yes, they do exist!), here is FM’s handy Harvard Daily...
Therefore, Harvard should modify Stanford’s calendar to make each trimester earlier by a few weeks. The fall term would begin after Labor Day, with exams before Thanksgiving. (As courses’ exam groups are published in advance, students who want desperately to get home to California or otherwise spend their late Novembers away from school could choose wisely and still get a longer Thanksgiving vacation.) With a winter term just beginning, the intense pressures to study over the holidays would be gone; and, for that matter, Thanksgiving would be salvaged as well, following immediately after fall exams...
This semester, about 10 members of the Kappa Eta chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity will live at the house, the only social club residence on campus. Since exam period, members of the club—whether or not they’ll be living there—have been renovating the late 19th-century Victorian they bought last semester for just under $1 million...
...currently top-selling shojo title, "Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play," by Yu Watase, typifies the style. Deftly combining action with melodrama, it tells of Miaka Yuki, a lazy student with exam nightmares. A strange library book allows her to visit ancient China where she meets a handsome but avaricious young warrior. Like most shojo the style of Fushigi Yugi includes lush costumes, impossibly beautiful boys and, yes, those big, saucer eyes and tiny, button noses. What new readers may be surprised at are the frequent shifts into goofball humor and the author asides -- both of which are manga tropes...
Coming off the extended Harvard exam period and only one match into the spring season, the No. 12 Crimson faced two top-10 opponents in a tournament that featured many of the nation’s top programs. Harvard came away with mixed results after three demanding days of play...