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...Director of Financial Aid James S. Milleragrees, saying he thinks first-years will opt togive themselves a light workload while adjustingto the Harvard grind...
...There will always be high visibility [in elections], so there will always be people with particularly big axes to grind who will find the energy to try to support themselves," he says...
...than beauty. Particularly the truth of materials. The Russian Constructivists had a term, faktura, meaning the straightforward, logical use of substances--wood, tin, steel, rope, wire--to produce expressive effects on their own material terms. Serra is and always has been fanatical about this. He doesn't paint, polish, grind or otherwise fiddle about with his metal. It rusts naturally and bears the marks of its making, the scrapes, even the claw marks of the grabs that hoisted the plates. And yet these traces, which one might think would be brutal, acquire--given the enormous scale of the pieces...
Passarella continued to grind while the rest of the team took care of its business. Blake completed his turnaround, earning his third three-set win in the four-daytournament...
...mesmerized by interactive pursuits--frequenting chat rooms and other multiuser domains, writing e-mail, surfing the Web, playing games. These can serve as a haven for workers from procrastination, boredom and feelings of isolation at work; the fantasy world they offer can be an attractive alternative to the daily grind. "It's an altered state of reality," reports Young. "It's like a drug rush." Depression, she and others believe, can be a result of--not the cause of--compulsive computer use: after someone has been parading his impressive alter ego around chat rooms or playing a power game, coming...