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...provides students the opportunity to create a new identity for themselves and pretend to be whatever they want, regardless of who they were yesterday.The holiday gives us license to engage in mischief and debauchery with relative impunity for a brief moment before we are confronted once again with the harsh realities of life.Halloween, like college, is a chance to do regrettable things without actually having to regret them.There is no such free pass in Ivy League football.With just seven games of conference play, each Saturday brings a sense of urgency, each win or loss a sense of finality.We approach...
...later found to be utterly false from the conversation transcripts. Amidst these incredible circumstances, the Icelandic government chose to effectively nationalize all three main banks, and investors began to worry about a national default on debt given the size of the debts the government had to absorb. Despite the harsh criticism it has endured in the last decade, it was the IMF that stepped in to provide a highly symbolic $2 billion loan to Iceland, which was followed by support from a consortium of Nordic central banks. This has finally eased some pressure on the unfortunate island...
...this recent wave of scandals should serve something more than another case for disillusionment. Instead, we should view it as a harsh but ultimately serendipitous reminder of the moral fallibility of political leaders we can sometimes come to idolize, and the importance of maintaining an informed, moderate political attitude after the ballots are counted next week...
...Lighting is so important. It’s the worst part of Harvard housing. Everything looks unattractive in this harsh light.” Apart from lighting, Shemtov cites rugs and fabric—a cheap alternative for postering up all the walls—as the other necessary components for a dorm room upgrade...
...façade of a two-story home enclosed by a white-picket fence—the quintessential definition of the archetypal middle-class Americana landscape—and the interior of a kitchen. As the action transitions between these two sets, the intended juxtaposition between idyllic fantasy and harsh reality is instantly unsettling, for what Wellman’s script presents is a duality that challenges the nature of perception in a scathing and fast-paced social critique. Breaux portrays the important role of Raymond with remarkable ease, imbuing his alter ego with a slightly paranoid sensibility and anxious...