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...raucous good time in Central Square, get a hold of the function room in The Tavern in the Square for a crowd of 25-55. The establishment doesn’t charge for the room, but there will be a minimum to spend on food and alcohol, depending on the size of your group and the night of your party. On a given Friday night this might between $750-$1000, so bring some heavy drinkers...
...This bloodsucking tale does serve the function of a standard college guide, but the introduction of the undead livens up the process. The story follows one Parker Norcross, who has found herself stranded outside Adams House without an ID card during intersession. When she discovers a staked body in the Adams Pool Theater, her vampire hunt commences. As Harvard buildings, majors, clubs, or concepts are mentioned in the story, they appear in bold and an explanation appears in a small paragraph in the margin...
...junkyard-kind of game.” On defense, he is capable of guarding another offense’s playmaker and creating havoc for opposing teams by forcing turnovers that lead to fast breaks. On the other end of the court, Pusar can function as a slasher, creating open looks for the Crimson’s sharpshooters, and he can crash the boards for offensive rebounds.“My role on the team is to be a defensive stopper and a dirty work player,” Pusar says. “There’s so much offensive...
...microscopic protein folding for up to 10 microseconds, or 1,000 times longer than ever before. “Through a series of dynamic steps,” Shakhnovich explained to The Crimson, the model, which has been in development for over four years, provides a “function for the three-dimensional structure of a protein. In many cases, when we have some insight into the structure of a protein, we have insight into the function of a protein.” The shape into which a protein folds is determined by the sequence of amino acids that...
...Moreover, the fantasy of a good war botched by bad management evades the reality that the troop levels in Iraq were a function of the politics of the war, rather than of some futuristic warfare theory. The chiefs of staff believed it would require closer to half a million troops to subdue Iraq. Yet they probably also knew that if Congress were presented with a realistic picture of the cost and commitment, it might balk at authorizing the war. That was the reason Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz jumped so aggressively down the throat of General Eric Shinseki when...