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...Harvard’s faculty, it’s that time of the month. The undergraduates are at it again—frantically browning their noses, that is??and no combination of office hours, extensions, and reference letters will shut them up. There’s a growing stack of graduate school applications to reject, and the wannabes that have already gotten through are hard-pressed to tie their own shoelaces, let alone grade exams, without professional help. The kids are back in school—thank God—but the damned hybrid doesn?...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is??working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the word “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system-beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
Both by virtue of who he is??an African-American, a relatively young candidate, a fresh face with an unconventional background—and because of his efforts to win voters outside the traditional Democratic primary base, Obama’s candidacy has drawn into the political process many people who have never supported a candidate before. He is able to give them, for the first time, an investment in their government and a sense that the political system is responsive to them...
...local news hosts started to discuss the night’s lead story: the “massacre in Omaha.” It was one of the most bizarre feelings I’ve ever had. No one cares about Omaha—no one knows where Omaha is??and there it was, broadcast directly into my living room. The whole thing was too much...
...reveal (besides the fact he took geekiness to a whole new level)? Expos preceptor Elizabeth L. Greenspan offers the following critique of Zuckerberg’s essay: “Zuckerberg seems to be offering up ‘fencing’ as a metaphor for himself, that Zuckerberg is??or imagines himself to be–‘both social and sport, mental and athletic, and controlled yet sometimes undisciplined,’” says Greenspan in an e-mail. Interesting. But apparently ineffective: Greenspan adds that “the metaphor ultimately fails...