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...upper-right hand corner of the yellow envelope included in every phone bill is written, "Postage Required for Mailing." So, at the beginning of each month, nearly every Harvard student affixes an extra 33 cents to their already exorbitant phone bill to send it, in many cases, the length of a football field...
...credit, the Harvard administration has worked at length with the Progressive Student Labor Movement to produce a draft code that, while still problematic in some respects, would be far better than the negligible protections these workers now enjoy. The draft requires that wages cover "local family costs, such as food, shelter, clothing, health care, transportation and energy." If effectively enforced, this "living wage" provision would represent a vital step by Harvard towards the humane treatment of factory workers. Unfortunately, it is precisely this essential provision which could be jettisoned today...
Sophomore jumper Dora Gyorrfy captured firsts in both the high jump and triple jump. She finished at a disappointing--for her--6 feet, 1.5 inches in the high jump then broke her own school record in the triple jump with a length of 12.57 meters. Gyorrfy jumped at a level beyond the reach of her competition, with the second-place Princeton jumper...
...Williams, 55, had accepted that sexy hair would never be hers. Her shoulder-length blond locks were thin and broken off. But last December the Redondo Beach, Calif., psychology student and former office manager read about hair extensions. "I decided it would be my Christmas present to myself," she says. Now luxe golden waves sweep her shoulder blades, and no one can tell they're not hers. Men swirl around her in clubs, she says, and women follow her into parking lots to gush. She recently saw her ex-husband for the first time in 20 years. "You look...
...Length in minutes of the Harold Pinter play Ashes to Ashes...