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...plain English, it means that Universities will rarely be held strictly to the letter of their own rules,” Silverglate said...

Author: By Laura L. Krug, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Berkowitz Tenure Suit Thrown Out | 6/27/2003 | See Source »

...menus made setting up and learning to use this device a bear. Once you get past those hurdles, the R75, which records onto DVD+RWs (rewritable) and DVD+R (single recording only) discs, works just fine. I especially liked the thumbnail previews of recorded shows, as opposed to the plain-text listings on other models. Still, the original $699 list price seemed about $100 too steep, which may be why Philips recently lowered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Not Just a Player | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

...problem. Young men in uniform, eager to get home, dismissive or just plain ignorant of local customs and unable to express themselves with anything more than a vein-popping scream and a brandished machine gun. "You are f_____g around. Just f___ off!" a soldier yelled at an Iraqi who was trying to visit the regional governor's residence in Kirkuk last week. (Every Iraqi, sadly, already knows the F word.) "The American soldier is, please excuse the word, very high-handed," says Abu Mousa, a veteran Iraqi journalist. Much more worrisome: some Iraqis believe the U.S. troops are light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Occupational Hazards | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

Part of that feeling of home is the ever-changing lingo that Chris and Sam brought from Jamaica Plain to Harvard. The word “such” is an important piece. Statements like “He’s such a guy,” or “He’s such a kid,” or “This is such a reality” pepper the room’s speech...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Four-Year Path to a Quincy Suite | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...roommates prepare to leave Harvard, they say they will miss these conversations, interspersed as they often are with joking, semi-insulting nicknames and, of course, the Jamaica Plain dialect...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Four-Year Path to a Quincy Suite | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

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