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Package delivery is most important during the first few weeks back in Cambridge. When students save money by ordering textbooks online, the anxious student loses out on his or her chance to actually stay on top of the reading for a week or two. And that precious thing forgotten at home—perhaps a shirt you wanted to wear on Saturday night, the printer you didn’t trust in storage or the finishing touch on your room decorations—might not be critical, but still essential to getting the beginning of the term in order...
...Athletic Department has banned U-Hauls from parking on any of its fields, citing the wanton destruction visited on its precious sod during the 2002 Game. Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd backed up this sorry excuse—the fields were destroyed in 2002 because they were still wet from heavy rains the previous days—by citing the risks of dancing on top of U-Hauls and “terror concerns.” Cars and SUVs, however, are still allowed to park on the fields. U-Hauls may be heavier and slightly more...
...nearly 200 years, the priceless rain forests along the Whitsunday Coast in Queensland, Australia, were ransacked?their precious trees stripped out, to grace the boardrooms of Brisbane's ?lites. Now, at long last, a chance to redeem some of that past is at hand, with the Whitsunday Great Walk...
...never lost a bike of the front of shuttle, it’s little comfort to Dartboard’s fragile nerves. Perhaps the next time a midnight Mather-to-Quad schlep is necessary, Dartboard will sit in the back of the bus—so that if his precious takes a spill, at least he won’t have to witness the carnage...
Guitarist Emma Pollock’s vocals are neither precious nor overwrought; she sings with a straightforward style that fits well with the music, which is fairly simple without seeming watered-down. She has a few moments of transparent beauty on “Come Undone” and “The City Consumes Us,” the latter a song that frames her lilting voice with arpeggios to fit the slightly melancholy mood. Although Pollock sometimes affects (whether consciously or unconsciously) Nina Persson of the Cardigans, and although she is by no means an amazing vocalist, it?...