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...week woes: which courses to shop, which Core requirements to fulfill, how to balance extracurricular commitments with heavy course loads. And then, of course, there is book shopping. Harvard professors, it seems, have a particular ability for picking expensive and hard-to-find textbooks for their reading lists. Students gripe that many professors require such books that they end up using very little. The Harvard Square-based Coop, in name a cooperative but managed by Barnes and Noble since 1996, has long had a near-monopoly on textbooks. The majority of professors submit their course reading lists to the Coop...
...summit that nobody wants much except the Americans. Palestinians, in particular, gripe that Rice is dragging them to it. They say Rice only wants to show Arab moderates-whom the U.S. needs to help repair the chaos in Iraq-that the Bush Administration is keen to make headway on the Israeli-Palestinian impasse. U.S. officials told Abbas's team that it is unlikely President George W. Bush would attend the summit himself. At the summit, scheduled for next month in an as yet undisclosed location, Rice would represent the U.S. side, and the two other participants would be Israeli Prime...
...know what the next gripe is, too. There needs to be a discernable way to separate similarly-talented one-loss teams. In short, the BCS is in need of a better tie-breaker...
...doubt the most pernicious. A teacher’s viewpoint can all too easily be construed as fact by a maturing student. And for those that disagree, the fear of receiving a poor grade is motivation to keep alternative viewpoints to themselves. They are left little choice but to gripe to college newspapers thousands of miles away. Stephen C. Bartenstein ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government concentrator in Lowell House...
...points him towards an appropriate weapon. Another American urges Cohen to shave his mustache so that he looks less like “terrorist.” Upon hitching a ride from a caravan full of frat brothers, amid the generic male jostling, one youth takes the chance to gripe to Borat about how minorities are always “on top” in the United States. The shouts of support when he yells to a crowded stadium that he supports President Bush’s “war of terror” are real...