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...thought about this a bit more yesterday morning while watching the men's giant slalom. As a bit of background: Last week, in the men's combined, the dashing alpinist from Franconia, N.H., Bode Miller, had bounced off his butt in the downhill portion and then messed up his first slalom run pretty good. With a single chance left, he found himself well and truly buried. Then he cranked the most sensational slalom run since Phil Mahre and Alberto Tomba hung 'em up, and wound up with silver. Sportswriters, who are metaphor lovers beyond the pale, likened Miller's charge...
There are a lot of other benefits to ending House dining. For one thing, costs would be reduced. As the Handbook for Students states, a large portion of the present Board fee is due to the fixed costs of operating 12 separate House dining halls. A reduction in meal plan costs and the wide array of other options available would make a Harvard education cheaper for all of us. That’s another blow to the convenience argument right there: a 50-hour reduction in one’s Dorm Crew sentence makes up for an awful...
Furthermore, you may have been struck—as I was—by “Saturday Night Live’s” recent acquiescence in giving “sponsor” Budweiser a several second spot during the applause of the musical guest portion of the show. In fact, it seems quite often now we’re seeing television segments being awarded special sponsors. Indeed sports programs no longer have halftime shows; they have the “Prudential Halftime Report.” Even the Super Bowl coin toss had a corporate tagline...
With paper-thin finishes a distinct possibility in the swimming portion of the meet, teams may indeed end up looking to their divers to provide their margin of victory...
...room contains a small portion of Matthiessen’s voluminous correspondence and copies of the works of his contemporaries—many of which are stored at Yale, where Matthiessen received his bachelor’s degree...