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...dinner, when Cassandra went to the bathroom, I had no clue what to do without a phone to pretend to be busy with. So I stared at people at nearby tables, which, while normal in 2000, is totally creepy now. But the real problem was trying to get to a party afterward. We got lost without the GPS, and by the time we got there, Cassandra's friends had already left. "Joel, this is your fault," Cassandra said many, many times. At 11:22 p.m., just four hours into our experiment, she turned on her phone and started mad texting...
Next year, the College will allow students to return eight days before classes start, in part so that they can participate in student-initiated programming. During this period, all campus facilities—such as dining halls, shuttles, gyms, and libraries—will operate on a normal term-time basis...
During the last eight days of next year’s J-Term, all campus facilities—such as dining halls, shuttles, gyms, and libraries—will operate on a normal term-time basis...
...initiatives of his career was to achieve greater openness and recognition from Russia about the massacre of Polish officers by the Soviet secret police in 1940. He insisted that the two countries could not build normal ties without achieving reconciliation over these crimes. On Wednesday, Putin made an unprecedented gesture of good will on this issue, becoming the first Russian leader ever to commemorate Stalin's mass executions of Poles alongside a Polish leader. Prime Minister Tusk had flown in to Smolensk that day for the ceremony in the village of Katyn, where most of the 22,000 political murders...
...between China and the U.S. in recent months - the falling-out at the Copenhagen climate-change summit, angry words over Tibet, disagreement about the right way to handle Iran, the woes of U.S. companies in China and a rumbling unhappiness over China's mercantilism - can be passed over as normal strains. But no serious student of history would believe this. As China grows, as it scrapes against international norms and habits of a different era, the sparks won't stop coming from Beijing. Chinese cyberattacks, trade games, asymmetric-war experiments - all these are part of our future. They...