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Quincy’s crackdown involved threatening to expel a freshman whose primary offense was refusing to do his Greek homework. In defiance, the student left Harvard...
...common room was always dark and empty during the week, as we are a quite busy and prolific suite. This particular time, however, I saw my roommate sitting alone in the common room, watching the football game that he knew no one else cared about, mournfully doing his Chinese homework in silence. We were both so lonely. It was a deeply moving moment, and it convinced me that we needed video games, stat. “NFL Blitz” wasn’t really just about making girls uncomfortable in our room; it was about bringing our blocking group...
...Blitz” has taught us that running plays are the ones with blue arrows and that the best way to sack the QB is with a body slam. But more importantly, it has become an institution for us. It has become a muscular bulwark against homework, e-mail lists and productivity, a serpentine trench in the excoriated battlefield of weeknight Lamonting, a brief but heroic drive through the line of all that would have us be friendless and overworked (and, clearly, also a sort of style guide for my sentences...
...classic Beer Game was created by Jay Forrester, an MIT professor, in the 1960s (he also worked on an aircraft flight simulator in the 1940s—what a guy). Later a “Root Beer Game” was developed to demonstrate supply chain management. Homework has never been...
...legendary. He is a voracious reader of history, spy novels and pulp fiction. He's subscribed to the Book-of-the-Month Club for 50 years. And he is careful, meticulously so. One decades-long colleague told me Gates will cancel a briefing if he hasn't done his homework. "Preparation for him is a cathartic experience," says his spokesman Morrell. He vents brutal answers to imaginary questions so he can be more diplomatic on the Hill. He's vigilant about the stagecraft of statecraft, even taking his own messy handwritten notes to meetings so his preparation can be seen...