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...greatly enjoyed Eric Pulier's op-ed piece, "The Reading Period Blues". Certainly all undergraduates agree that the Harvard academic calendar, which Grinch-like steals the joy from our holidays then welcomes us back with two weeks in a pressure cooker as we try to do special Reading Period reading assignments, write term papers and prepare for exams all at once, seems to be the offspring of sadism and dementia, kept alive by tradition. I know I did, until I learned The One True Reason the academic calendar will never be changed to put finals before Christmas...
...Family has a Christmas-time ritual. When the Grinch rears his ugly head and the wintry winds begin to whip wildly westward (making Chicago very cold), we pack up the family station wagon and head south. To Florida...
Hart's celebrity status and name recognition put him among the front runners, at least for the moment. To the rest of the Democratic field, however, he was like Dr. Seuss's Grinch Who Stole Christmas, an instant spoiler further disrupting his party's stumbling attempts to rally behind an electable candidate. Like Jesse Jackson, the other leader of the Democratic pack, Hart arouses such high negative feelings in the polls that he is hardly a plausible nominee. Yet together they could draw enough votes to make it more difficult for any of the other five contenders to garner...
...anymore. In the past few years, massage has been moving out of both kinds of parlors and into the mainstream. No longer an embarrassing reminder of those touchy-feely human potential movements of the '70s, massage is fast emerging as Americans' favorite antidote to that current cultural Grinch: stress. Nothing kinky, just a way to get out the kinks. "It's the ideal therapy for the '80s," declares Robert King, president of the Chicago-based American Massage Therapy Association. "Instead of having an extra martini or gulping Valium, people ought to consider a professional massage...
...They're calling her the Emerson College journalism Grinch who stole the State House Christmas," Robert Hoyt, Katie Clapp's journalism professor, said Wednesday...