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...ultimatum worked. Although Busta Rhymes did not perform on the day of Springfest a la Wu Tang Clan 10 years prior, the President’s Office did agree to help, contributing an unprecedented $25,000 to the concert...

Author: By Aria S.K. Laskin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: How to Save Springfest | 4/28/2005 | See Source »

...raving mad by now. I suspect that I am not. I like to tell myself that I am in pretty sane company. The game certainly has its pantheon of upstanding citizens. While ambassador to France, Benjamin Franklin preferred to eschew the Paris opera for chess at the Caf? de la R?gence. (Excellent choice.) Napoleon played, although to judge by one of his games, a diagrammed and illustrated copy of which hangs in my office, he was a far better general. Nabokov was a fine player and renowned composer of chess problems. And the sanest man I know, Natan Sharansky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Chess Make Him Crazy? | 4/26/2005 | See Source »

...course, Loker shouldn’t be totally converted a la EPT’s. The space should still be usable by non-Pub goers (who don’t want to pay for a draft just to sit and do math homework) day and night. But all of Loker could certainly use a pub-themed face-lift. With so many options on the table, we can only hope that administrators will show the same attentiveness to student wants during the feasibility study as they have so far. Though much is still in doubt, the future looks bright...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: The Perfect Brew | 4/26/2005 | See Source »

...still am an avid supporter of this alleged menace. “Why?” you might ask. Because I am trying to start a “confrontation revolution” à la Che Guevara. It is true. And no, I am not trying to secretly alienate you from all of your friends in the process...

Author: By Nicole B. Urken | Title: DEAR NIKKI: Confrontation | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

...match the road signs, were important in England, says Kate Burns, Google's managing director of U.K. sales. "One thing we've learned as a company is to act locally and to treat each market as idiosyncratically as its demands," she says. As they say in France, "Cherchez la ? pizza?" Lower Taxes, Faster Tracks Low-cost airlines are not the ultimate word in cheap transport, it turns out. EasyJet has halted its twice-daily flights from Paris to Marseilles because the discounter was losing a battle for customers with the French railways. The high-speed TGV train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 4/24/2005 | See Source »

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