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Another grievance I have with this year’s changes to the dining halls, although not directed at HUDS in general, is the presence of the flat-screen televisions. Whose brilliant idea was it to put the generously donated TV’s in their current—and utterly useless—position inside the serving areas? Oh, right. The Harvard College Consulting Group (HCCG). Come on, Harvard. Even PBHA got the memo and stopped using HCCG’s free consulting “services” and dished out money for some real help...
...team with 18 points, including two threes and perfection from the charity stripe. Lin added 15 with four steals.“We played more confidently and came out with an edge about us,” Housman said. “We’ve been coming out flat [during the season] and I think today people were thinking from the get-go that we could win this game outright instead of having to build a comeback.”Harvard amassed a 10-point lead with 7:35 to go, but costly turnovers and domination on the boards...
...such a manner: his characters grate against our hearts and reason, and yet, as much as we may wish to do so, we are unable to dismiss them as insane. Repeatedly denigrating himself as “the new boy” and just a “flat-foot,” Martens accepts his share of responsibility for the murders he helped commit as part of the secret police. He does not attempt to pass the blame off onto the inevitability of the system.It is unclear to what extent the characters in the novella are conscious...
...same holds true for the rise of McCain. The forces arrayed against him were formidable. Rudy's name, Fred's charm, Mitt's money. McCain was out of cash and out of friends and is flat out despised by the hard right. By what remarkable means, then, has he arrived at the brink of his party's nomination? Well, people kind of like him. He's smart, usually reasonable, often funny, sometimes goofy. So voters, you know, vote for him. For this you need Tim Russert...
...Fighting the Fiscal Fix It's not often that I agree with michael Kinsley, but his Essay opposing a fiscal stimulus was a winner [Feb. 4]. For years we have overspent on oversize homes, flat-screen TVs and gas-guzzling SUVs, with little regard for our ability to pay for them. Now it's time for the people and the government to break the addiction. Kent Nash, HENDERSON...