Word: paper
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...long as we're on the subject of non-political issues that matter to everyone, let me bring one up that somehow did not make it onto this year's laundry lists of proposed quality-of-life improvements: two-ply toilet paper. Yes, that's right, if Stewart and Cohen want to spend their time fighting for things that matter to all students, things that are "non-political" and are within the domain of realistic council intervention, toilet paper is the place to start. Considering that we live in our dorms eight months of the year, our bathrooms should more...
...toilet paper is the kind of thing that makes a bigger difference than it seems. First you improve the quality of bathroom life, and the next thing you know, students' outlook on the whole Harvard experience softens up. I am not saying single-ply should no longer be available. If you are concerned about saying paper, or for some reason like that sandpaper-feel (and I don't want to know why), stay with Scott Surplus. But if Harvard claims to care about us, two-ply must be available. You don't think Dean of Students Harry R. Lewis...
...record of his arrest or appearance at the station house, but it didn't take long for Gallagher to figure it out: Ryan and Blondie. Yet even with Colbert's testimony, it took time--and luck--to bust Blondie and his confederates. There was, after all, no paper trail...
...there is a spate of new books focused on slaves and enslavers. Velma Maia Thomas offers Lest We Forget (Crown; $29.95), an interactive children's book serious enough for parents. Readers remove slave sale receipts from envelopes and pull back a paper ship hatch to find slaves stacked like cordwood. British historian Hugh Thomas (no relation) has published The Slave Trade (Simon & Schuster; $37.50). Tracking the barter of Africans from 1440 to 1870, Thomas ranges through Europe, Arabia, Africa and the Americas. As societies spin and tug at one another like a warped solar system, a sad message emerges...
FORTUNE Business Report gives you everything from Wall Street's day, without the little paper slips. Monday: blue chips and tech stocks part company...