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Dates: during 2000-2009
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While their posh mansions dominate the area around Mt. Auburn Street, very few Harvard students are lucky enough to posses a key to one of Harvard’s eight final clubs. For the privileged few, the lack of student social space probably doesn’t seem like such a pressing problem; these classy playhouses provide ample space for socializing and entertainment between classes—and after the bars close. Somewhere between 5 and 8 percent of Harvard students (all male) can call these mansions their own, leaving the vast majority of students without an adequate alternative...

Author: By Lia C. Larson, | Title: Spatial Reasoning | 6/8/2005 | See Source »

...name and no backstory. He's simply called XXXX in the credits, and he's played by a gelid Daniel Craig. He is a) a drug dealer and b) a man who, having made his pile, wishes to abandon his life of crime and start hanging about at posh country clubs. But prosperous as he is, he is still only middle management in the criminal pastry shop. He has obligations to his masters, chief of which is to help them recover a vast shipment of ecstasy pills that have gone missing somewhere between Amsterdam and London. This story line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Slumming with the Brits | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

...safer to travel to the slums of Detroit or the suburbs of Tel Aviv? How about the Indian side of Kashmir versus the posh campus of the American University of Beirut? According to Harvard’s Office of International Programs (OIP), students are free to visit the formers, but Israel and Lebanon are still...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: The Best Insurance | 4/19/2005 | See Source »

...downtown, she’s going to have huge vistas of abstract art lining the walls, floor to ceiling, and she’ll casually hold a martini glass as she points out artistic nuances to guests at cocktail parties. She’ll be living the part of Posh Spice, whom she played impeccably this past Halloween...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: When We’re Over the Hill | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

...Orpheum might not be the best place to catch the band—consider that three years ago you might have seen them at Bill’s Bar—the stylish group are consummate showmen, and will be sure to entertain both floor and balcony in the posh environs...

Author: By Christopher A. Kukstis and Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: On the Radar | 3/3/2005 | See Source »

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