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...like it is). It also goes a long way to explaining the real reason why the stock market performed so atrociously last week. What could possibly more seductive than the prospect of making untold amounts of money from an IPO for a website, something that anyone with a modicum of technological savvy can create and maintain? How many times over the last few years have we heard about how groups of college students--portrayed without fail as greasy, nerdy and severely lacking in fashion sense--became multimillionaires overnight, thanks to somecreativeidea.org...
...should begin this article with a confession. Sometimes, when my reading list subjects me to the dense texts of Marx's Capital or Weber's Economy and Society: Part One, I turn to the culture of the American teenage youth for salvation and sanity. Always trying to maintain a modicum of intellectual decorum among the stoic philosophes of Lamont or Hilles, within the leaves of these difficult volumes, I am forced to hide the waxy, radioactively luminous pages of the contemporary social journal otherwise known as Teen Beat. I shamefully indulge in evaluating the subtleties of e-mails sent between...
...lunch-box. It is a laptop with a sense of humor--almost ridiculous in its rejection of more serious stereotypes of computer. Designed to live in someone's backpack, it can be handled with relative impunity. Colored like a pre-school toy, it can be considered with a modicum of flippancy and easy camaraderie...
...this week, the outcry of Sox fans achieved a modicum of validity from a rather unlikely source. Dr. Carmen Puliafito, who chairs the ophthalmology department at Tufts University School of Medicine, was so upset by blown calls during the American League Championships that he offered to perform free eye surgery on any Major League umpires who qualify. His reasoning? Dr. Puliafito postulates that many of the umpires are, in fact, secretly nearsighted...
According to Assistant Dean David Illingworth, "This policy was put into place for students benefit to keep a modicum of order in the dorms." He said that before the restrictions, groups of students would enter Houses and accost students, saying, "I'm sleeping in your room tonight...