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...storing the dead pheasant one may find on his way to class, and they make for handy and spacious pencil cases, too. While within the safe confines of the Harvard bubble, boys will be boys (or in this case, 40-year-old men), but on any other campus, these modern-day dandies would surely get their suspenders snapped against their backs. —Columnist Victoria D. Sung can be reached at vsung@fas.harvard.edu...
...time when modern-day luddites are blaming the decline of our society on the constant glow of computer screens and televisions, but I proudly wear my TV addiction as a badge of honor. Angry mothers ironically appear on Oprah claiming that television is taking away from their family’s quality time, but I remember fondly how TV brings my family together...
...your fund topped up by Congress?" asks one. But Bair knows that her chief role is to reassure everyday investors. "Your money is safe in the bank if it's FDIC-insured," she says. That's good. Because in the coming months, there may be many more modern-day Lydia Lobsigers...
...have trouble exiting Cambodia. For his part, Hun Sen has already vowed to make the Preah Vihar region a "death zone" if the Thai army doesn't back down. Given the historic enmities between the Khmer and Siamese empires, threats of violence aren't easily ignored. After all, the modern-day town near the ancient Angkor Wat temple complex is called Siem Reap, which in Khmer means "Siam defeated...
...almost anachronisms, like highwaymen, egoistic outlaws from a distant past. They see an opportunity for gain, and take it; they are Overmen, perpetually transcending the mundane. Maybe that’s the best reason for bailing the financial industry out: They’re exciting—like modern-day pirates, only better. James M. Larkin ’10, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is a social studies concentrator in Quincy House...