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...subsequent message threads that branch from such useful pieces of information fill up our inboxes and drive us to exasperation, leaving the useful bits few and far between. List members are left to glean the most valuable pieces from a sea of nonsense. We should not have to wade through eight different phrasings of the same question to finally find out what to do with the census form. It’s as though we are stuck in a new era of gold mining, filtering out the majority of what we see just to gratify ourselves with a pertinent prospect...
...clearly benefit both parties involved. For instance, we could party away in MIT’s marginally better social space! It’s not like those frats are currently getting much use, anyway—and Harvard would really be doing MIT a service by providing bodies to fill them up. On the subject of students Harvard could send over to MIT, we’re pretty sure that our ivy-covered institution would be willing to part with some of its female undergraduates to even out the gender ratio a little further down Mem Drive. MIT men would...
...last few feet of Princeton’s bow deck broke off in the collision and the boat began to fill with water. The crew was forced to stop rowing altogether, and became an obstacle around which the trailing MIT crew had to swerve...
...Altchek and Lee were more than capable fill-ins for the pair, as Lee came away with her career-best performance in a multi-day event...
...authority" for Basrawis and the different agencies working in the area, most of them outside his command. "As a military commander, not owning quite a lot of the other organizations and lines of development on the social, economic, political and development front, how do you then start to really fill the vacuum with positive things? That's the challenge we face," Salmon says. The reflexive assumption of authority that came with Britain's colonial power has no place in the messy conflicts of the 21st century. Says Nagl: "One of the keys to learning is to recognize that...