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...retard the motion of the film. Even the supposed surprise ending becomes an “Oh, okay” moment instead of a “Wow, no way, that’s his father?” one. The movie, then, becomes a woeful drudge of cinematic excess: it’s cool for the sake of cool...
...students are still placed under an unreasonable financial burden. Meanwhile, members of the Class of 1969 completed college without significant debts, and felt free to follow paths (teaching, Peace Corps, the arts) not dictated by financial pressures. Today’s students often leave graduate schools with debts in excess of $100,000, accumulated from undergraduate and graduate tuition. Does Harvard want to push its best-educated graduates only into the highest-paying fields, where many of them will inevitably use their education and brainpower to help the rich keep getting richer, leaving others to fend for themselves...
...detailed planning that made this year’s tailgate the safest effort yet. Besides easily fixable problems like bathrooms and entrance lines, the problem with this year’s tailgate seems confined to particular individuals and their personal attitudes—be it consuming to dangerous excess or a single-minded obsession with underage drinking. In the end, Harvard-hosted tailgates for The Game will continue to suffer until authorities emphasize safe drinking instead of no drinking...
Harvard’s top endowment managers took home slimmer but nonetheless mammoth paychecks last fiscal year, with two managers pulling in salaries in excess of $25 million, the Harvard Management Company said yesterday...
...Staff, however, would not be responsible if it did not offer a solution to Yale’s woes. A backwards, tribal excess, Yale cannot be allowed to muddy the pristine waters of American academia any longer. That is why the Yale Corporation should make the prudent business move in our increasingly globalized world and outsource sucking. Set up a Yale in Malaysia, pay your professors in grams of lint and watch the profit margins soar. Yale might even be able to compete with Harvard’s endowment, but only if it could teach its “students?...