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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...requires (some) mental exertion and print out a transfer app to Yale. Finally, some of you may have already begun to think about classes. Likely, you’ll want some help, so here’s some advice on advising: It doesn’t exist here. Your proctor will be unable to tell you if there are any decent Cores, and sectioning is tantamount to taking the SAT and undergoing a frontal lobotomy at the same time. No one can help you with this. Peer advising is a new program created to lubricate the process...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Waiting to Exhale | 9/15/2006 | See Source »

That's the favorite Renzo-ism at L'Oral, the French beauty giant that beat out rival Proctor & Gamble for rights to develop a Diesel fragrance next year. "We adore working with him, and we believe very much in the project," says Patricia Turck Paquelier, L'Oral's international-brand president for designer fragrances. "But it will be a major investment for us, so we validated our intuition with research." What appealed to L'Oral in the findings was Diesel's international positioning. Consumers perceive European styling with what she called a "think-positive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art Of The Deal: Who Drives Diesel? | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

...Board: 1. The Administrative Board of Harvard College. It decides your fate if you screw up badly enough for anyone to take notice. 2. A verb: He was “ad-boarded” for getting really drunk and pushing his proctor out of the fifth-floor window (see Proctor...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Harvardisms: Learning The Lingo | 8/29/2006 | See Source »

...Proctor: 1. Friendly graduate student who dispenses milk, cookies, and advice to first-years during the week. 2. Unfriendly graduate student who combats personal sexual frustration by terrorizing freshman parties...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Harvardisms: Learning The Lingo | 8/29/2006 | See Source »

Republican: 1. Rare political species targeted for extinction by the dominant, “open-minded” liberal populace which rules the Yard roost. Watch them as they graze. Residential Tutors: 1. “Proctors” for upper class students (see Proctor). 2. Graduate students who get free food and housing under the guise of being “upperclass resources” (and often they...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Harvardisms: Learning The Lingo | 8/29/2006 | See Source »

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