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...Fed up with being an Annenberg satellite, Adams recently shut its dining hall doors to first-years for the first time. Last week, the Adams House Committee (HoCo) unilaterally decided to extend its restrictions on Dartboard and his first-year friends for all lunch and dinner hours. The most restrictive dining hall policy in Adams’ history—Dartboard does not take the ban lightly. That the Adams HoCo was able to impose the ban without consulting affected first-years and non-Adamsians calls the policy into question...
...Oxford English Dictionary (OED) reveals this definition of “vet”: “to examine carefully and critically for deficiencies or errors; specifically to investigate the suitability of (a person) for a post that requires loyalty and trustworthiness.” The public is fed up with perfidy after all—epitomized appropriately enough in a 1998 movie titled Wag the Dog—and the media’s talk of “vetting” reflects an interest in returning to values Americans want in their leaders. This is what vetting...
...regularly don Viking helmets, opera seemed to be the last performing art in which talent still mattered more than looks. That was until London's Royal Opera at Covent Garden denied leading soprano DEBORAH VOIGT her signature role of Ariadne in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos because the well-fed diva couldn't fit into the little black dress the casting director had to fill. "I have big hips," Voigt told London's Sunday Telegraph, "and Covent Garden has a problem with them." The opera house said it "deeply regrets" that the weight issue became public...
...strongest insights are about the symbiosis between a racist society and the groups it despises. Take the camp's Chinese cook Wu (Keone Young), who is the butt of slant-eye jokes but has an indispensable role. When someone wants to keep a murder quiet, the corpse is fed--despite the cook's silent disgust--to Wu's pigs. (Which, yes, the townsfolk eat.) Even more essential are the Indians or, as they are dehumanizingly and incessantly called, "the godless heathen c__ksucker Sioux." Although it's two weeks after Custer's massacre at Little Bighorn, they don't appear...
...small caveat. Rates have been declining for most of the past 20 years, a cycle that has probably ended. Yet few economists expect rates to shoot higher and keep moving up. If rates rise 2 percentage points over several years, an ARM might still prove cost effective. Underlying the Fed chief's call to ARMs is that we could be in a low-rate environment for years...