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There’s mischief afoot in Eliot House as students impatiently wait for their Netflix DVDs. A flurry of e-mails has recently crossed the Eliot House open list, sent by distraught students seeking explanations for their missing movies. As time passes and odds of a legitimate mailroom mix-up dwindle, students are beginning to point fingers. First-time Netflix user Kathleen A. Fedornak ’07 is anticipating the arrival of two films that are already more than a week late. Her roommate, in the middle of a thesis-writing cram session, was looking forward...

Author: By Katherine M Tygielski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Eliot Residents Stumped, Stressed About Missing Netflix | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...Harvard Square Business Association recently edited the entries for both Cambridge Gnomons on its website, mistakenly redesignating both of them FlashPrints. (An official at the association declined to comment on-the-record about the mix...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: What’s In a Gnomon? | 10/13/2006 | See Source »

That's when I began to wonder whether there had been some kind of DNA mix-up. Fond as I am of stuffed cabbage, Poland and Belorussia are not places I had ever identified with. The sub-Saharan African connection was also puzzling. Any physical evidence of black Africa has apparently been diluted beyond recognition in my murky gene pool. And while heavy traces of African blood are not unusual in Latin America, they tend to be linked to West Africa, where much of the slave trade to the Americas originated. Clearly, my ancestors got around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diving into the Gene Pool | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

...play sees slaves and masters contort the roles they normally take. However, “Maids” goes deeper that simply showing a character mix-up. Channeling Immanuel Kant, Genet shows how the maids’ oppression exists only with their permission; so long as they fight each other instead of Madame, they will remain in chains...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Burkle’s Revolution Ends in the Home | 7/21/2006 | See Source »

...tarted-up rsum. Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan has been roasted for her cribbed chick-lit novel. But Raytheon is a major government contractor that sells missiles, not stereos, and Swanson is a big boss, not a teenage undergrad. Still, he insists it all began with an innocent mix-up. Swanson asked staff members to compile a presentation from materials he kept in a file. It was such a hit that he and his staff collected 33 "rules"--one for each of his years at Raytheon--and began disseminating them in a 76-page booklet. "It's clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rule No. 1: Don't Copy | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

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