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...worry about making it to every Harvard-planned event that’s on your pre-made schedule. While the Admissions Office does its best to ensure you get a taste of our fair institution, our best advice is to relax and let yourself wander, mingle with potential classmates, pester some upperclassmen, and stop by a party or two if you’re so inclined. Sticking to some strict schedule won’t allow you to get an idea of what Harvard is really like. The people at Harvard are one of its greatest assets, so make sure...
...PESTER POWER. Tweening. Viral marketing. Juliet Schor, a psychiatrist and economist, exposes the multibillion-dollar advertising schemes aimed at America's kids in Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture. TIME met with Schor...
...show." Nestle argues that it's unfair to parents too. "Why should you have to fight with your child every day about what goes into the lunch box?" she asks. The restaurant and food industry spends about $13 billion a year on ads that teach children to pester their parents for special foods, she contends. "Children are supposed to have their own foods and not eat boring adult foods. Kids are supposed to have things like Lunchables," she scoffs. "There's your personal responsibility for you. It's your personal responsibility to fight this level of marketing...
Clavery residents Court A. Vanderbeek ’06 and October L. Blondtick ’06 used their balcony overlooking the Delphic to pester their neighbors with words and flying empty beer cans. The night took a sinister turn when seven drunk Delphicians knocked on the pair’s door. Vanderbeek snuck out through their fire door to the next suite and wandered into Claverly. But he wasn’t safe for long, and had to sprint down four flights of Claverly steps, hop over another flight, and leapt into the Claverly security guard?...
Instead, Charlie Rock is guarding swatches of desert where danger swirls like sand devils and then disappears. Sure, kids still pester the troops for candy and water. But the grownups aren't in a hospitable mood. In fact, small groups of Iraqi soldiers, many in plain clothes, are letting the heavy metal pass--70-ton M1A1 Abrams tanks and Bradley troop carriers--and lying in wait for the soft-skinned, lightly armed trucks hauling fuel, food and water. Every day, the journey to Baghdad stretches ever longer as Charlie Rock and other units like it that expected...