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...circus philosophy. “It’s about this,” Skinner says, gesturing at the gyrating crowd of people dressed in Viking costumes, togas, Shumag’s, Renaissance dresses, and stilt-walkers. Despite their name, the Harvard-Radcliffe Juggling Club does not limit itself to juggling. Members meet every Sunday to practice circus skills, which include stilt-walking and unicycling. While the club’s chief function involves learning and practicing, Skinner and Shivvers are excited for their upcoming performance. “Because juggling and circus acts are all about performing...
...negotiate with Hamas,” Sullivan said. “Meanwhile, the Turks are demanding that we help them speed up the [European Union] membership process in return for expanding oil production.” Some of the other issues that panelists addressed included creating a national speed limit and raising gasoline taxes to decrease domestic oil demand, opening the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to deal with the shortfall in supply, and working with allies to coordinate a strategic response to the global oil crisis. In an interview after the event, Summers expressed his view that a long-term solution...
...reports recommendation are of a similar manner and deal with the safety and smooth running of the event. All students should be able to stand behind the proposals for adjusted shuttle routes, uniformed ticketing through Harvard Box Office, detailed communication between the student groups and the BAT, and a limit on non-Harvard students that ensures at least one-third of participants belong to the Harvard community.Although the report is mostly comprised of productive sound policy, we feel obligated to voice concern over two specific recommendations of the draft report. The first is the limit of large events to only...
...have set the bar so high for consumer gadgetry that spending, on average, 11 cents to send each text-only message seems absurd. The Short Message Service (SMS) protocol, a technology from the 1980s which still accounts for nearly all cell phone text messaging, has no formatting and a limit of 160 characters. Entering messages requires painstaking key pecking, and received messages can come out of order. Yet rather than dismiss it as backwards, most users see text messaging as a godsend and fail to appreciate it for the terrible rip-off it truly...
...Carriers also use underhanded tactics to profit off of text messaging. For example, many carriers promote their text messages heavily but set the default limit for new customers unrealistically low, hoping that many will surpass it and rack up huge additional fees in their first month. What’s especially frustrating is that using text messages is hard to avoid. Even if carriers didn’t make it difficult, if not impossible, to call and disable the feature, friends serve as the biggest exit barrier. People who send a text message expect another back in reply, especially during...