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* Books. Discounting the relatively pathetic selection offered on its two lower floors, the Coop is still heralded as the textbook king (a.k.a. monopolist textbook hoarder). Why? Harvard gives the Coop a monopoly on the needed texts for all of its classes, except when the professor chooses to purchase elsewhere. Wouldn...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: The Coop: Anachronism in Action | 10/29/1996 | See Source »

Journalistic values, specifically skepticism, must be applied to journalism itself. What has happened in the last few years is that journalists who thought they were acting in the spirit of the Watergate journalists of the past have abandoned their values of skepticism. It is a sorry, pathetic spectacle. It is...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: 'This Town': Manners, Media and Politics | 10/25/1996 | See Source »

"To see bias, one had only to look at the reading list presented for the central course in this field of concentration, Women's Studies 10," reads the transcript of Mansfield's remarks. "In his 37 years at Harvard, Professor Mansfield had never seen a reading list more shameless and...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: 10th ANNIVERSARY | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

Moulton also adeptly portrays the transformation of Martha, screeching comments and complaints about anything from Bette Davis movies to the worst of her husband's pathetic qualities, then cooing sexual yet motherly come-ons at Nick, and finally, reduced to her befuddled, infantile core, gasping lines like "I'm cold...

Author: By Lisa K. Pinsley, | Title: BCA's Woolf: Be Afraid; Be Very Afraid | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

Pittsburgh--you failed to sell out a playoff game. Houston--I'm still bitter about those horizontally-striped uniforms from the eighties. Seattle--you beat the Yankees too much. Milwaukee--you're just plain pathetic.

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, GREENE LINE | Title: If I Were... | 9/17/1996 | See Source »

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