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...notoriously big concertgoers, it is these events that tend to engage the most people, and so this money is dollars well spent. While the CEB certainly has not chosen to be cash-strapped, they could handle their funds more wisely by polling undergraduates to see if they prefer hearing an affordable, “big-name” artist like Third Eye Blind or spending that same amount of money on several smaller venues. If the College can’t afford a superstar (read: Ludacris), then perhaps it would be better to stop shooting for one-act shows...
...confided to the viewing audience what the crowd at the Kodak Theatre does during commercial breaks: "Mostly we sit here making catty remarks about how you look at home." After making the mandatory joke about front-row perennial Jack Nicholson, he added, "The compulsories are over." I still prefer Stewart hitting the rage button on The Daily Show, but I can't dump on a monologue that ends a Barack Obama joke with the words "Gaydolf Titler...
Members of the Environmental Action Committee (EAC) and other environmental groups around campus are working closely with the administration to set goals for the university. Many administrators shy away from a long-term commitment, especially one that falls outside their likely tenure at Harvard. They prefer more comfortable and less innovative interim goals and ten-year plans...
...gear at an unprecedented rate. So, it's no surprise that the nation's ground-pounders would be seeking the most from the ever-cooperative members of the House Armed Services Committee. For years, that Pentagon-pleasing panel has asked the services to send it a wish list - lawmakers prefer to call it an "unfunded requirements list" - of budget items they desire but which have not been approved by their penny-pinching civilian overseers, i.e. the Defense Secretary and the President...
...always try to adapt,” Crum said. “We learn about new technology and add it to our alert system so that we can always alert people in the way they prefer to be alerted...