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...possibly be aware of it before opening the book). In the meantime he mopes around town riffing on the ephemera of small-town America and indulging his obsession with brand names. The tone is light, by turns over- and underwritten. Our hero seems as uninterested in his fate...
...audience—rhetorically—why the continents are so different in terms of the cultures that they have produced. “Historians themselves have not offered us an explanation for this biggest question of history,” Diamond said. Diamond argued that the historical fate of different cultures has been based not on biological disparities but rather on geographical factors. Diamond’s popular books, “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies” and “Collapse: How Civilizations Choose to Fail or Succeed,” have...
...confused in its purpose. Asked to do little, it does little in return. When the College marshals the manpower of several hundred upperclassmen, it should set a level of expectation commensurate with their desire to help freshmen. We hope that the Student Advisory Board that meets to decide the fate of freshmen advising will buck this Staff’s position and ask for a greater commitment from the body of individuals eager to interact with and aid freshmen. Doing this means combining the functions of social and academic advising into one comprehensive program. Dividing the academic and social realms...
...Rinere, the new associate dean of advising programs, said Monday afternoon that the Prefect Program would no longer exist in its present form but would be “morphed into something else.” But at a meeting yesterday with Prefect Program board members, Rinere said the fate of the program would not be decided until the soon-to-be-formed Student Advisory Board (SAB) recommends reforms this spring. “We will preserve all aspects of the Prefect Program that the SAB decides should be retained,” she wrote in an e-mail last...
...really believe that if Morgan wasn’t here playing baseball,” says Joe Walsh, his Harvard coach, “he’d be in Torino.” It was an awkward twist, this, his new fitness agenda, driving nails. As fate would have it for the surehanded All-Ivy shortstop, so was the accident that led him there.“You think a ball hits you in the nose, that’s enough pain right there,” Walsh says. “But you never think that you?...