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...wouldn’t shy away from using Fung Wah” for future New York jaunts. “I braved the open road on Fung Wah,” La Fave wrote in an e-mail. “I’m not going to lie; I have no complaints. Fung Wah provided me a super-cheap mode of transportation, and I didn’t have to wait around.” Following last week’s accident, Chow was cited for speeding, failure to use care in stopping, negligent care while operating a vehicle...

Author: By Jeff D. Nanney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fung Wah Bus Passengers Persist Despite Risks | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

...would actually give departments more sway in how general education courses are chosen, and say that more departmental courses would count for general education credit.Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons, who co-chaired the task force that drafted the proposal, also said that the strength of the new curriculum would lie in its interdisciplinary focus.“The report organizes the curriculum around subjects rather than disciplines with the intention that a variety of disciplines (and so disciplinary methodologies) would be represented under them,” Simmons wrote in an e-mail. Historians said they would be bracing...

Author: By Madeline M.G. Haas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Social Science Profs Question Gen Ed | 2/16/2007 | See Source »

...hate to say it, but there are some questions an interviewer may ask you where you will have to straight up lie. For instance, I was once asked what I thought was my greatest accomplishment. If I were to answer truthfully, I would have said that it was the time that I beat the game “Gears of War” with the difficulty set to “Insane” while playing with a controller whose buttons kept sticking, preventing me from effectively zooming in with my sniper rifle and throwing accurate grenades. Unfortunately, my video...

Author: By Eric A. Kester | Title: Surviving the Job Interview | 2/16/2007 | See Source »

...result, I had to tell them a tiny, but believable lie about an accomplishment that they are more likely to be impressed with, such as the time my friends and I founded a little company that we called eBay. Another time you may have to lie is when an interviewer asks you what you think is your biggest weakness. Even though it may be true, it probably isn’t a good idea to tell the interviewer that, from time to time, you suffer from uncontrollable rage. My strategy for answering this question is to avoid it somewhat...

Author: By Eric A. Kester | Title: Surviving the Job Interview | 2/16/2007 | See Source »

That direction of flow also compresses the winds between the mountains and whatever air masses lie above, squeezing them like a stream of water rocketing through a narrow nozzle. And just for a little extra oomph, two spurs of the range angle off in just the right configuration to funnel everything right at Mount Washington itself. A calm day up here is almost unheard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Worst Weather in the World | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

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