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Still, Dartboard knows that his dream is not to be: when they turn their backs on the dimensions of physical reality, Harvard’s thinkers prefer the rarefied murk of theories upon theories to the comforting tones and loony hijinks of cartoons. Meep, meep...

Author: By The Editors, THE EDITORS | Title: Dartboard | 11/7/2003 | See Source »

...every waking hour to. But elections and club membership should be based on platforms and interest, not on who has the money to buy 400 bags of candy. We need to offer our students a better way to distinguish themselves—and I think most of us would prefer a handy website or a weekly e-mail...

Author: By Loui Itoh, | Title: Bribing for Attention | 11/4/2003 | See Source »

...prefer to focus on non-financial compensation, such as attaching affordable housing to new university developments or assisting with the public schools, to a contentious debate over a number that is a tiny fraction of both Harvard’s and Cambridge’s budget...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Aguero, Margaret W. Ho, Claire Provost, and Tina Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: City Council: Election 2003 | 11/4/2003 | See Source »

...woman kissing, since I?d certainly seen such a thing before. All I knew was that something about this particular man and woman was, to me, strange. My father gently explained that Mr. Hudson didn?t really have a lot of experience kissing women; in fact, he would much prefer to be kissing a man. This was said in the same tone that would be used if he had been telling me about people with different colored eyes, and I accepted without question that this whole kissing thing wasn?t reserved just for men and women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'The Reagans,' From One of Them | 11/4/2003 | See Source »

...this digital age, we have developed an incredible tendency to prefer electronic solutions to tasks which can be accomplished as well, or nearly as well, with a pencil and paper—and we seem oblivious to the diminishing returns of any move toward the digital solutions. Look at all the people using a $500 PalmPilot to do the work of a pad of note paper if you don’t believe me. Online registration, if experience is any judge, would not only not ameliorate the hassles of study card day but make them significantly worse. I had four...

Author: By Sally A. Marshall, | Title: Pen, Paper Sometimes Better Than Broadband | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

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