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...11.FM: Sudoku seems to be on the wane. What are your predictions for the next big puzzle moneymaker?WS: I disagree on Sudoku. Well the craze has waned, just as the crossword craze of 1924-25 has waned. People at the time thought crosswords were another fad like flagpole sitting or raccoon coats...Sudoku is like that. Walking here this morning I passed a homeless man who was lying in the sidewalk leaned up against the building and he had a newspaper open and he was solving a Sudoku and I thought, “Harvard has the smartest homeless...
...peplum fad kept the Italian film industry going until it discovered its next and more lasting trend, the spaghetti Western. Directors and stars simply moved from one genre to the next. Before helming A Fistful of Dollars, which kicked his and Clint Eastwood's career into overdrive, Sergio Leone had made his directing debut with The Colossus of Rhodes...
Rebellion among Harvard undergraduates has apparently been on the decline since the storming of University Hall in 1969. But many rebels without causes are still hidden within our very own houses. The newest fad in student resistance? Dorm-room pets. According to the Handbook for Students, “No student may keep an animal in a building owned or leased by the College.” But does the College really care? According to school rules, it is the House superintendent’s job to deal with rebel students and dorm pets. If the super is unsuccessful with...
Harvard needs to learn from history and avoid replacing one academic fad with another. The Task Force’s focus on “today’s issues” is just as arbitrary and transient as the “ways of learning” system developed and introduced in 1979. Nothing in the new General Education proposal convinces me that within thirty years another revamping won’t be needed. Instead the College needs to foster a return to liberal arts proper—a place where knowledge is not taught to develop abstract modes...
...ever changing rainbow effect on the other side. His ultrashort hair, however, sometimes presents problems: the color occasionally refuses to hold. New York University Freshman Paul Nagle prefers to highlight his brown waves with an electric shade of aubergine to complement his camouflage fatigues. He calls the fad a kind of "Disney rebellion." Says Nagle: "It's a symbol no one can understand until they...