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You’re dozing in a Government class when the professor calls on you. “How were the readings?” he asks, and you scramble for an answer. The course packet lies unopened on your shelf, so you recite CliffsNotes of previous lectures to fill time. Miffed, the professor scorns your apathy, but he should expect a lack of interest: Much of political science today is dull...
...generis crossbreed, which is why we've been so successful as a nation. Our moxie comes in two basic types. We possess the Yankee virtues embodied by the founders: sobriety, hard work, practical ingenuity, common sense, fair play. And then there's our wilder, faster and looser side, that packet of attributes that makes us American instead of Canadian: impatient, hell-bent, self-invented gamblers, with a weakness for blue smoke and mirrors. A certain fired-up imprudence was present from the beginning, but it required a couple of centuries for the most extravagant version of the American Dream...
...short personal profile that included his name, age, height, hometown and favorite movie, sport, book, song, food and college class) or "surrogation information" (another undergraduate woman's enjoyment rating, on a scale of 1 to 100, of a speed date with the same man). Based on either packet of info, each participant was asked to predict how much she would enjoy her own speed date (in scientific terms, her "affective reaction"); after the actual date, each woman filled out her own score on the 1-to-100 enjoyment scale. It turns out that when women used surrogation info from...
...meetings will continue to provide some printed materials, such as the agenda, but others—such as documents related to docket items—will be available online before professors gather in University Hall. These printed documents may soon become relics of a long-gone era. The prepared packet of information was “apparently your last chance to get it on hard copy,” Molecular and Cellular Biology Professor Douglas A. Melton soberly told the Faculty when he presented a docket item. Papers rustled. IN THE DOGHOUSE In his presentation of the report...
...Holoshitz said. Ultimately Hysen voted for the bill and said the roll-call vote did not affect his decision to support the bill, which he said he strongly supports. At the same meeting, the UC allocated $24,151.45 to 86 different projects in its spring grants packet legislation. That package received one amendment, proposed by Cyrus M. Mossavar-Rahmani ’09. He attempted to strike funding for On Harvard Time’s mural, but the motion ultimately failed. “I think On Harvard Time is a kind of clique that funds itself pretty generously...