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...suspected all along that those Finns were pretty clever—they came in tops with an average score of 544. A mere 61 points and 23 countries later, America’s 15 year olds failed to edge out the Spanish by only two points. And, moreover, America’s national test scores continually improve while America drops in comparison with its peer countries. Was this just some fiendish European plot to make its American neighbors look like blockheads with a screwed-up educational system...
After the tournament finished, besotted Beiruters attempted to extend the fun by organizing a Holy War of Flipcup: Jews vs. Christians. The Hebrew contingent lost the match by mere seconds, but was buoyed by a raucous rendition of Hava Nagila. On the other side of the table, the victors celebrated with cries of “Jee-zus! Jee-zus!,” igniting a furor not seen since Wal-Mart’s midnight release party for “The Passion of the Christ?...
...international student. I don’t hail from Romania or Zimbabwe, or even from California. I’m from Manhattan, Noo Yawk, a mere four-hour, $15 bus ride (and it used to be less before those Chinatown buses outrageously raised their prices) away...
...when the University announced that all guard positions would henceforth be outsourced to Allied-Barton Security—a company that had been steadily cutting into the Harvard guard union’s workforce since the 1970s. The union, which had shrunk from over 120 members to a mere seven by the time the Allied deal was struck last summer, was thus finished...
...question that the choice of council leadership is an important one, but the present system, which fails to allow for voters not wanting or not able to distinguish between basically identical campaign platforms, mischaracterizes a group of Harvard students whose self-removal from the electoral process is distinct from mere apathy and undemocratically deprives them of a voice. No one stands to benefit from that over-simplification...