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...financially and hygienically, on the College’s part. Due to the ubiquity of cell phones nowadays, the vast majority of red phones did little more than gather dust in the darkest corners of student rooms, and Harvard’s re-used pillows often suffered the same fate. We strenuously object, however, to the mode in which the Offices of Residential Life and Physical Resources promulgated their decision...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Where Have All the Pillows Gone? | 9/11/2007 | See Source »

...only Florida, which announced plans to schedule its primary on Jan. 29, has been informed that its delegates will be cut, barring a compromise. But others, including Michigan, could suffer the same fate. The Republican National Committee has said it will also sanction early-acting states--there are as many as seven--but it has been less strict in reining them in. What's more, on the Democratic side, the DNC granted exceptions to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada (pleasing African-American constituencies in South Carolina and Hispanics in Nevada), and these "first four" have coaxed pledges from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dems' Florida Fight | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

What contributed to the depression and alcoholism you experienced after Apollo 11? -Randy Roach, FATE, TEXASReturning to Earth was challenging for me. I was a celebrity on a pedestal, and I had to live up to that. Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life. So the alcoholism and depression, which I inherited, were ripe to flourish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Buzz Aldrin | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

Later in the movie, a twist of fate throws them together at a cocktail party, this time with Hoffman's character dressed as a man. The actress doesn't recognize him, and he tries out the speech on her. Before he can even finish, she throws a glass of wine in his face and storms away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: Steven Pinker: Words Don't Mean What They Mean | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...abstract, we think we look all right with gray hair, we nonetheless feel as if we are losing our 'real selves' if we no longer have our 'real hair color' - the color we had when we were young and looked our best." We're not talking about the fate of civilization here, but that semantic backflip does seem a little Orwellian. War is peace, freedom is slavery, and the artificial me is the more real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War Over Going Gray | 8/31/2007 | See Source »

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