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First thing you notice about a girl: At Harvard? The skill (or lack thereof) of her plastic surgeon...
...bills and a can of mace are all you need for a raucous night at the Kong—but deep pockets? No, they haven’t made drinks any more expensive. Rather, you’ll need plenty of space to fill your britches with those colorful plastic animals that adorn the Kong’s signature spirit, the Scorpion Bowl. According to page 336 of this year’s Harvard Student Agencies Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard (read: one big, sometimes inaccurate advertisement, see page 9), you should stock up and “donate...
Before you know it, Camp Harvard will be a distant memory and exam time will be upon us. For the unseasoned student, this means going through your syllabi, figuring out which books you need to read, and releasing them from the plastic wrap that has been covering them since September. For the efficient (read: lazy and smart) student, it means that it’s time to email those people you kind of know from section and start a “study group.” Don’t expect to actually study together, however, for study groups...
...spring semester ’06’s whipping boy, but not quite for the right reasons. Okay, Larry Summers’ BFF did once build an entire lecture around a hunk of plastic dog poo, and he gets the lines between current scientific theory, his opinion, and incontrovertible fact all mixed up, the poor dear. Pinker may flirt successfully with psychology, neurobiology, and evolutionary theory, but his class is jack-of-all-trades, master of none. Le sigh. But on the bright side: Pinker’s brain is as big as his mullet...
...risk of terrorism [Aug. 21] brought back a bad memory. Thirteen years ago, I was on a plane traveling from my native city, Lucknow, to New Delhi. Fifteen minutes into the flight, I saw a young man walk from his seat into the galley; he was armed with a plastic jar and a matchbox. My worst fears were confirmed a few minutes later on seeing the ashen face of the flight attendant. We had been hijacked. It seems that not much has changed since then. It is better to exercise caution by strengthening security systems and giving up some freedoms...