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...basement by the free-weight room. Recently, with that gone, the desert has encroached—it’s a long, thirsty, two-floor climb up to the cardio rooms and the nearest alternative drinking fountain. Does this extended sahel/desert metaphor mean that soon fitness geeks will gather around the MAC’s pool as wildebeest do around a watering hole on the Serengeti? We’ll tell you once that drinking fountain gets replaced.One: Pimp our pit-stops. Three words: toilet seat protectors. Widener Library has them. Lamont Library has them. House common bathrooms don?...
...will also underscore the status of women as a special interest group. What do we need a Women’s Center for that we can’t do in any other space on campus? To gather together, one might assume, and celebrate our femininity, what makes us special, our—dare I say it?—innate differences...
...What's been happening these past 10 days is a finale to scores of small incidents that occur in all large cities when aggrieved young men gather at swimming pools and beaches, in car parks, nightclubs and at football games. It's not a clash of religions, civilizations or even ideologies. They may dress or have their hair cut differently, but the combatants are pea brains in a pod: Australian-born, idle and stunted. They're spectators in the new economy, and the rise of the smart worker has left them smelling like losers...
...said she e-mailed her Columbia counterpart, Oki, last Friday morning, and the two have been “in close contact” since. Eze also said she has tried to reach out to other student groups on Harvard’s campus to gather support for Columbia students. BGLTSA co-chair Michael A. Feldstein ’07, who is also a Crimson editor, said the group was “extremely disheartened when we heard about the hate crime at Columbia.” “These recent hate crimes both at Columbia and here...
Squabbling over money is hardly the best way to enter the winter holidays, but it is a fitting way for the European Union to mark the end of a genuinely bad year. As government leaders gather this week in Brussels for a bruising negotiating marathon over the budget for 2007 to 2013, they are looking into a void. "There is no constitution, no economic reform, and it looks like there is going to be no budget agreed," says Denis MacShane, Britain's Europe Minister until last May. "It is probably the unhappiest year in European construction since...