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...irreplaceable resource,” former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 wrote in a confidential 1999 report bemoaning the deplorable state of College resources. “Once land is gone, it is gone forever.”The only option left is to scatter resources across campus—a serious shortcoming, according to the UC president. “Decentralization,” Glazer wrote in an e-mail, “does not allow for the cohesiveness of an ideal student center.”But maybe what?...
...Many stores use a Microsoft standard, but Apple uses their own (called FairPlay), and that’s the one iPods are equipped to deal with. That means that any of the twenty million and some-odd iPod owners looking to buy music online have only one option for most songs. And once they’ve sunk a couple of bucks into these purchases, they’ve begun to build up a powerful financial disincentive against ever buying a music player not made by Apple: it wouldn’t be able to play any of the tracks...
Self-stimulation is always an option. I consider it a healthy practice throughout life...
Life is stressful and always has been. Eliminating stress entirely is not an option. If there are discrete sources of stress in your life--a relationship, a job, a health problem--you can and should take action to try to mitigate them. But my experience is that we all are subject to a kind of conservation law of stress. If stress recedes in one area, it seems to increase in another. Get your finances in order, and your relationship sours. Get your relationship together, and the kids cause you grief...
...goal for the future of Harvard spirit is to “trick the freshmen” into considering Loker a standard social option, Haan says. “Then it sort of just sticks,” he says...