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...money supply; the Federal Reserve does. Presidents cannot dictate their own budgets (as Prime Ministers can in parliamentary systems like Britain's); here, Congress has the ultimate say. Even worse, more than half the federal budget goes to entitlements and "transfer payments" like Social Security, where government is merely a conveyor belt transferring money from younger workers to older folks. What is left, "discretionary" spending, is a mere 8% of the $11 trillion economy Presidents are reputed to control...
...inefficient use of space. Rather than filling paragraphs with his own similes, Soskin would have done better had he reviewed all of the actors’ performances. Given the small size of the cast, it seems unjust to devote to four out of the seven characters a mere five lines. Daniel J. Wilner ’07, who played Hedda’s husband, certainly deserves more notice—his acting was so genuine that it was impossible to believe he was acting at all. The performance by Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 of the mousy...
Meanwhile, the report is severely lacking in areas that could have put Harvard on the vanguard of thinking about education. For instance, the discussion of arts in the curriculum runs a mere page and culminates in only one suggestion: that the dean of the humanities look at the arts. The lifeless section seems to conclude that performance and artistic endeavors lack academic merit, a view which is falling out of favor at most colleges nationwide. Thankfully, administrators were smart enough to cut one seemingly disparaging and nonsensical sentence that found its way into the confidential draft version of the report...
...finally finish the Boston Marathon, a mere 2:10 behind the men’s winner. Barely able to walk after completing the course in 4:15—I nearly take up the offer of the kind volunteers and jump into a waiting wheelchair. But seeing that most of the people accepting that offer are about 30 years older than me, I decide to just tough...
...mere ten minute walk away, there is an antidote for HUDS-dulled taste buds: Christina’s Spice and Specialty Shop. As soon as one walks through the door, hallucinogenic wafts of star anise and cardamom replace the Mass. Ave. car exhaust. The 80-plus varieties of spices often find their way into the ice cream made in its adjacent sister shop, in the much-touted Christina’s Ice Cream. Aside from the wide array of whole and ground spices available, Christina’s also stocks dried fruits and vegetables. Go for the dried morel mushrooms?...