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...significant cost to Harvard.”‘THE GOOD GUYS’Some of Harvard’s tenants say the University has supported them during difficult times.Betsy Siggins, the executive director of Club Passim, gives her landlord much of the credit for keeping the folk music club on Palmer Street alive. “[Harvard has] been very, very supportive of Passim. They value what we bring to Harvard Square and to the community,” she says. “They are the good guys in our opinion. They have made it possible...
...because I live in Mather, “this real world Azkaban.” One of the characters in the story is taken for being abroad, but in fact, he is just residing in Mather. Though my house pride was at first offended by this characterization of Mather-folk, I thought back to days during the winter where I didn’t leave Mather for days, and found the description hilarious...
NEVER MIND THAT the revolution Earle proclaimed didn't happen on Nov. 2. For lefties, this winner in the Best Contemporary Folk category still offers righteous anger at the direction the country is taking and the malevolence of the Establishment--just as a good folk album should. And any right-winger who can't laugh at the skulking, faux reggae Condi, Condi (surely one of the best love songs ever written about a former National Security Adviser) deserves to be locked in a room with Lee Greenwood for eternity...
With that, we urge you to question your motivation for staying home this weekend as The Game approaches. Aside from giving relief to the thousands of decent folk who also claim themselves as inhabitants of New Haven, you should come with a further assurance: Cambridge is prepared to absorb your stench in exchange for the joy of seeing your faces as the mighty Crimson emasculates the demure—at best—Bulldog for the sixth consecutive year...
...another. After studying, among other things, global catch data over more than 50 years, he and a team of 13 researchers in four countries have come to a stunning conclusion. By the middle of this century, fishermen will have almost nothing left to catch. "None of us regular working folk are going to be able to afford seafood," says Stephen Palumbi, a Stanford University marine biologist and co-author of the study published in Science. "It's going to be too rare and too expensive...