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...wasn’t a vapid question. Adams was artsy. Eliot was snooty. Lowell was brainy. Mather was jock-y. Sure, there are potential problems with racial self-segregation and intra-house homogeneity, but flattening these wrinkles with the iron of randomization was a quick and ultimately careless fix, one that has resulted largely in the social sterilization of Harvard. Unfortunately, in an attempt to pick up the social slack, final clubs have instead taken the heat...
...voluntarily moved in the banlieue, and few could ever scale the invisible barriers to departure thrown up by deplorable education levels and the unlikelihood of finding work. Periodic efforts to fix the banlieue have been launched repeatedly over the years, but the fecklessness of such initiatives-and the underlying attitudes of the wider society that views as alien even France-born and -raised banlieusards-failed to halt further festering. This month's violence appears to finally have driven home the message that the crisis of the banlieue can no longer be ignored...
...create a situation in which no Israeli soldier will have to maintain public order, whether in Gaza or the West Bank. Let's give it to the Palestinians, as long as there is security for us. No more occupying another people. ARAFAT: What is important for me is to fix my people on the map of the Middle East and not to be like those who have been canceled out in international agreements, like many communities after World War I and II. It is the continuous tragedy of my people that I cannot forgive. We have paid a very high...
Last year, students hungering for a late-night fried-food fix could quench their cravings at the Quincy Grille. But this year, a damaged ventilation duct has forced the popular student-run social spot to turn off its fryers until next fall and halt operations this year until a less greasy menu can be devised. Contractors discovered the decay of the duct during summer renovations aimed at making Quincy the second handicapped-accessible house on campus, with Currier being the first. The vent is “broken, full of flammable grease, and just plain dangerous,” Quincy...
...Jive Records, the label home to such icons as Britney Spears, *NSYNC and R. Kelly. “When I met with the president of Jive, I sat across from him and I wanted to tell him that he had ruined music for my generation and I wanted to fix it,” Fitzgerald says, laughing. “Frankly, I thought his label had homogenized music for us. But they signed me anyways.” Almost immediately, though, Fitzgerald’s cynicism clashed with her new producers. “They had this thing where they...