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...fair to ask whether America's lawmakers could do it again. The bursting of the debt-fueled property bubble and the crippling losses suffered by banks, together with the political dithering of recent days, have set in motion a chain reaction that, in the worst-case scenario, could lead to something like a 21st century version of the Depression - even if a bailout package does eventually get approved...
...immune to this epidemic of sleep deprivation, and here in Cambridge, the issue is coming to a head. However, a shortage of pajama parties is not the problem—the problem is a shortage of pajamas. The biggest reason that Harvard students find themselves sleep-deprived seems fairly obvious: We are simply having too much fun. We party too hard, and we strip down too often. A 2007 survey by Harvard University Health Services found that just over half of Harvard students had engaged in sexual intercourse at least once. This astronomically high number should alarm us?...
...April is the cruellest month, breeding the first signs of summer out of the dead land. But April will be especially cruel next year, for the roots of the rarest lilac have been dug up, and whose fair bloom will welcome the nascent summer never again...
Students entering the tent outside the Science Center yesterday may have felt like they were traveling a lot further than Harvard Yard. Over 70 organizations participated in the International Experience Fair, an annual collaboration between the Office of International Programs and the Office of Career Services, representing international study and exchange programs from around the world. As part of a larger initiative to send students abroad, Harvard held its first international fair in the early 1990s. In the past few years, Harvard Summer School has increased its international presence to 25 programs run by Harvard faculty around the world, said...
...Helena, farther north in the state, Dave Smith, who owns a business that makes electronic musical instruments, says, "I just want them to come up with something that's more reasonable and more fair and that still might help. Unfair would be the biggest one-word comment. No one is going to help me if I have problems with my company. Especially considering the huge amounts of money these companies were paying themselves, it's really obscene." Another St. Helena resident, Paul Tuttle, a registered Republican, peppered his Representative, Democrat Mike Thompson, with anti-bailout e-mail. "I think...