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Another supposed advantage of the Macintosh is the reliability of its operating system and the accompanying software. But this reputation is entirely undeserved. Even the new iMac, supposedly a powerhouse machine immune to problems, recently caused Apple’s customer help website to grind to a halt with more than 240 complaints on one page alone...
Scherf’s presence, and the general competitive spirit of all the runners involved, gave the River Run a little more credibility than your average IM sporting event. The Run will soon be forgotten as the participants return to the daily grind of problem sets and midterms, and I doubt it changed that football manager’s stance on who he hands out cups of water to, but for part of that Saturday morning, the lowest rung of Harvard athletics had the spotlight all to itself, even if no one was there to watch...
...Reading and commenting on so many student papers can be a bit of a grind, no question, but there is really no other way to teach analytical writing effectively,” Preceptor James P. Herron said in a written statement. Despite the grind, Herron called Expos “the most gratifying teaching experience of my career...
...came to assign the story, although he pointed out that Mankiw “is a big figure on campus,” so recent criticism over years-old actions might be newsworthy. Still, a conservative reader might have reason to think The Crimson has a political ax to grind. Mankiw isn’t apparently that reader. He declined last week to comment on The Crimson’s coverage...
...play us this year, but we have a lot of good receivers, so they can’t just focus on one,” Mazza said. “But if they try to stop the pass, we’re going to have to grind it out and get yards with the running backs...