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...After surviving a thousand quizzes and fifty problem sets, you forget what’s going on—you even have trouble remembering what classes you’re taking. I try to put every spare second to good use, so I try to find time to just lay down on my bed and relax. It’s great if I can find time for a half-hour nap before a performance. Because of the nervousness that comes with an approaching performance, believe me, just sleeping and breathing can be pretty hard. I have found that the less...
...committee of student-athletes made efforts to spread the word about the available transportation through house open e-mail lists and other pre-existing channels, but the program never gained footing on campus and was quietly disbanded in 2002, suggesting that the root of student absence lay not just in laziness, but deeper ambivalence...
...Lay off Jack Meyer and save millions of dollars annually,” yelled Tom Potter, a Harvard Law School library employee...
...raking in the chips. Online betting exchanges, the peer-to-peer punting havens that allow gamblers to match up with one another, take about $5.2 billion in bets annually. But in Britain, traditional bookmakers like William Hill have been griping for years that because the exchanges allow punters to "lay" bets - bet on a horse, team or competitor to lose, rather like investors who sell stock short - they encourage corruption. No chance, say the exchanges, who insist that picking a loser is no different from picking a winner, and say their technology actually helps track unusual betting patterns...
...weeks now, John Kerry?s heard critics tell him he needs to lay out his vision for the country before the flood of Bush-Cheney TV ads convince voters that the Senator?s real name is Francois Mitterand. Taking the advice, Kerry unveiled a plan Wednesday to cut the budget deficit by half in four years. No one noticed. With unrest in Iraq growing by the hour, reporters spent the day asking Kerry if the U.S. should ?take out? Shi?ite Ayatollah Moqtada al-Sadr or simply bring the troops home. They ignored Kerry?s repeated attempts to turn their...