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...Harvard, every student living on campus—except those in the Dudley Coop—pays exactly the same amount for the meal plan regardless of how many meals they eat or how much they eat at any meal. Each student thus pays to eat the average number of meals that undergraduates swipe into—which this year is approximately 14 per week, according to Raymond Cross, Director for Finance, Information Technology, and Procurement at HUDS...
...What if most of the dining hall closed down except for the grill and they served you the food on disposable dishwear?” Chadbourne says. “So really what you’re paying for just two people to stay in each house...
...Quantity is also crucial to consider. You do not want 100 roses spread around her dorm room (though I don’t know why you would spend that kind of money on flowers anyway). There is a high probability that this will freak her out, except on very special occasions. A single flower is sweet. Half a dozen can be charming. A dozen is, of course, nice. Or be inventive: send 11 and hand-deliver the twelfth. So, the important take-away message from these figures: don’t go over a dozen. Always mind the freak...
...other words, Jobs is into control. In itself, that is of no real importance, except that in a lot of ways, Apple is an expression of Jobs' personal ethos. One reason Apple makes its own hardware and software is that when Jobs goes to the trouble of creating a piece of software, he doesn't want it running on hardware built by a bunch of dudes he doesn't know and can't fire. He wants it on hardware he makes himself. How else can he be sure that every little thing integrates together the way he says--nay, insists...
...Richie” Banerji ’06 wrote. “Southwicks Zoo didn’t answer. Tufts Animal Hospital is out of zebra. I called the Rhode Island zoo—the lady said it does not move its larger animals anywhere except for zoo transfers.” By yesterday evening, it appeared all hope was lost. “We’re Out of Luck?” read the banner headline on the website. But team member Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06 said the crew should not be counted...