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...Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 opposes the efforts of the University to minimize women’s choices between work and family, arguing that the University is presuming that women who want to take time off from work are “making a foolish or irresponsible choice...
Danny and I were both ready with invective for members of our own gender crossing romantic wires with our twin, and ready with more invective against professors or TFs who were too foolish to appreciate our twin’s unique brilliance. Together, we’ve railed at the way the administration sends away favorite young professors or lecturers after a few years, we’ve complained about final clubs and backstabbing social climbers, we’ve rejoiced in each others’ triumphs on the playing field, in the paper, and in true friendships and relationships...
...would be foolish to only talk about Allston, however, when discussing the changing face of Harvard College and University: there are far more immediate alterations proceeding under our noses, ones which will impact many of us during our time as students at Harvard. The construction of graduate school housing on the site of a parking lot on Cowperthwaite Street, in the quite immediate vicinity of Leverett, Dunster, and Mather Houses, will certainly change the East River skyline, and the routine of many undergrads. While Harvard’s goal of housing 50 percent of graduate students...
...business should be foolish enough to believe this hypothesis. In a country where government-controlled companies comprise the industrial base, piracy is not derived from commercial callowness?it appears to be official policy. Authorities may be quite willing to mop up small, unregulated businesses to curtail street sales of counterfeit brands, but protecting core foreign technology is another matter. That is why Beijing declares victory when street sales of pirated DVDs move into licensed stores that present the same product in better packaging with money-back guarantees and, of course, taxes duly paid. That is why a decades-long campaign...
...Saran Wrap bound up with a red ribbon. Another wanted to greet her husband "a la gypsy with beads, bangles and bare skin," but when she went to the door, she was surprised to confront an "equally surprised water-meter reader." Marabel admits, moreover, that she herself "looked foolish and felt even more so" the first time she dressed up in "pink baby-doll pajamas and white boots after my bubble bath." -TIME, March...