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...certainly more convenient and a great opportunity to meet new people in the House. But most importantly, the relaxed, informal environment led to the kind of natural, high-quality discussions which are so often lacking in sections. In-house sections for large lecture classes should be the norm, and Harvard should perhaps encourage resident or non-resident tutors to lead the sections whenever possible. Also, House seminar offerings-only a handful a year in only a few Houses--are pathetic, especially in comparison to the largely successful freshman seminars. More House seminars would be a great way for Harvard...
...lists for its spring plays, which include Shakespeare's "Richard III" and a hip-hop musical called "King Kong: The Musical." One of the two productions to be held this spring on the Loeb Mainstage will be a dance production called Perpetual Motion, a move away from HRDC's norm...
...novelist, Amis has demonstrated a facility for inversion (Time's Arrow runs history backward). Here the story Straight Fiction posits a society in which homosexuality is the social norm and heterosexuals are fearful of discovery. Career Move illustrates what might happen if poems rather than prose became movie material. "The only thing we have a problem on 'Sonnet' with...is the form," says a Hollywood producer to a dismayed poet...
...than it says about the framers' wisdom. When the framers chose the Senate to be the trier of presidential impeachments, they did not expect senators to be popularly elected, they did not foresee the ascendance of powerful political parties, and they may well have expected secrecy to be the norm in the Senate, as it was during its first six years...
...Cyrix chip, for example, for just $560 (monitor sold separately). Earlier this month, Packard Bell NEC unveiled a $500 machine powered by a 300-MHz chip. Once a novelty used by upstart vendors trying to get the edge on market leaders, inexpensive PCs are becoming the norm, with average retail prices hovering around...