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...Welcome, junior parents, to Prestige and Mobility??s Alternative Tour of Harvard, the no-holds-barred, kick-you-in-the-groin, leave-you-sterile-where-you-stand, give-you-expired-coupons look at the seedy, “unofficial” side of Harvard. You know, the side you see when Professor Greg Mankiw wears those “pants.” Before we begin, congratulations on siring America’s best and brightest, who will all go on to be president—even the girls...
Spring semester is approaching, a new set of Crimson editors is on its way, and Prestige and Mobility??s future is unclear. When we first started writing for FM, we had a list of demands. Although we still haven’t received our secretaries, our sexy secretaries, or our sexetaries, we did get the glass-bottomed hot-air balloon, the collected works of Afroman, and a commemorative photo with Registrar Barry S. Kane. Also, we received that machine which turns pennies into flattened pennies with our Queen Drew Faust’s image pressed on them...
...only pass those same borders restrictively, slowly, and with much effort. In a world where output has increased over the past twenty years primarily due to a fivefold expansion of the labor supply, according to International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook 2007, increased labor mobility??rather, increased human mobility??is still anathema to both the political left and right in developed countries. Even though a dramatic increase in immigration would probably alleviate world poverty and generate wealth more than any other policy, faster flows are still seen as too risky and unguarded...
...which had inspired his sculptures to film collages, assembled from varied and seemingly incongruous source materials. His 1958 debut, titled simply “A Movie”, is perhaps his most famous film. The work is a collage inter-cutting various scenes of restless, frustrated, even comically absurd mobility??men on horses, novelty bicycles, surfboards, water-skis and racecars—clips of peep-show footage, air disasters, tight-rope walkers, and myriad other images, set to the sounds of Ottorino Respighi’s “The Pines of Rome.” Its narrative...
...Escalating housing prices? “Gentrification is the main problem, so we need a public school system that middle class residents want to send their kids to.” Immigration? “Education is essential for upward mobility??people come here from all over, there are tons of Somalis and Ethiopians, for example, so we need a school system that ensures a basic level of literacy.” Race relations? “Direct conversation about race is so difficult. We have to have shared experiences, and this begins in the schools...