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...many people, this is, in fact, a great advantage of college. In our garden of youth, it is socially acceptable to drink on Mondays, wake up at noon, and wear sweatpants all the time. The dating options are plentiful, and unsightly wrinkles and receding hairlines are largely out of sight...
...realm of historical narrative and first-hand accounts into the realm of fiction. According to Henry, it is only in fiction that the memory can live forever and continue to grow, thus saving the Holocaust from the indignity of being forgotten. Since it is clear that this Henry in fact represents to some degree the experiences of Yann Martel himself, a curious and not entirely displeasing duality comes into play...
Gold-Parker, who will be playing in the concert, echoed Lee’s sentiments in an email: “I’m pretty excited for Yardfest, but it bothers me that most students get really excited for contemporary stars like Kid Cudi but miss the fact that jazz artists like Jimmy Heath have had an immeasurably larger impact on American music,” he says. “I hope that the OFA can advertise the show in a way that gets students excited...
Although keeping the shades up during the day is a nice way to enjoy the scenery that Harvard has to offer, at night it might be best to keep the shades drawn. For all those non-physics majors out there, it is in fact much easier for someone to see into a bright room at night than it is for you to see out of it. Think about Taylor Swift and the guy next door checking each other out every night in her music video, “You Belong With Me.” It’s nice...
...same thing: the hundreds of millions of dollars in suitcases that the agency took into Afghanistan in the early days of the invasion was not aimed at funding women's literacy projects; its purpose was to buy off the local warlords who control all the valleys, recognizing the fact that power changes hands in Afghanistan when those warlords switch their allegiances. Karzai probably considers the U.S. political leadership naive for believing that a pro-Western government there can survive without paying off a lot of unsavory characters. (See a story about President Obama's surprise visit to Afghanistan in March...