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...crushed by an uprooted tree in front of Eliot House. As undergraduates returning from the sunny climes of the Bahamas and Cancun groaned and grumbled, you could almost hear the old lady chuckling in anticipation of future pranks. Well, have no fear, she mistimed it this year--the last-gasp-of-winter blizzard came a week earlier this time, when we were safely away on break, and, in any case, it was only eight inches. So, welcome back to a delightful Cambridge spring--more sun, less clothing, more baseball and crew, less basketball and hockey, more flowers, more buskers...
...Labs are also good for group activities, like creating posters for student organizations and (gasp!) playing games," Epstein wrote...
...classical art, practiced and refined for centuries, filled with carefully measured plies and set to the most classic of classical music? Is it a modern art, a dramatic outlet for expression, sprinkled with eclectic costumes and moving semi-rhythmically to sounds rather than music? Could it possibly be--gasp--a fusion of both? Should a performance like that be even labeled "ballet...
...doubt his word. But there's also a bigger picture that's worth a look. At Berkshire's annual meeting last year, Buffett warned that the stock market was presenting few bargains and that investors should expect dramatically lower returns. Just last fall he bought $2 billion of--gasp!--long-term Treasury bonds, an investment that betrays some concern about stocks. Now he turns around and buys enough silver to make the Hunts jealous. Could it be that Buffett has soured on the stock market...
...Solutions, the Virginia company with an exclusive contract on dot-coms (not to mention dot-orgs and dot-nets). The company's contract runs out at the end of March -- and though it?s expected to be extended for another six months, that is believed to be the last gasp of the domain-naming dinosaur...