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...first week of my first year's winter (the year Boston received 80-some inches of snow), my starry eyes reflected the snowy pavements. I loved the thought of seasons. Until the snow stayed. And stayed. And the weather dropped below zero. And the prospect of putting on a sweater, coat, gloves, scarf and hat merely to go outside made me never want to leave my dorm again...
Ehrlich said yesterday that he was already planning to take a year off between graduation and law school, so the prospect of running PBHA next fall is not so daunting...
PBHA members have talked in the past month about the prospect of paying PBH's staff members and making PBH fully autonomous from the University, which currently pays the salaries of its 10 staffers...
...heard quite a bit about "empowerment" and "making the student voice heard" in the past few weeks. But on issues from public service to ethnic studies, students don't just want to be heard--they want to be obeyed. They want their input to be binding on administrators. This prospect is quite funny, almost as amusing as last Thursday's moronic rally for more student voice. The rally was a concrete demonstration of what ridiculous results we get when students try to recapture the spirit of '60s activism...
Investors, jittery at the prospect that the Federal Reserve will not lower interest rates after all when it meets on December 19, pushed the Dow Jones industrial average into negative territory Tuesday. The Dow closed down 9.40 to end the day 5,174.92. The New York Stock Exchange composite index also dipped, 0.37 to 329.80. On the Big Board, decliners led advancers 1,368 to 990, with 749 unchanged. Volume was moderate with 349.42 million shares traded. The Nasdaq composite index fell 7.36 to 1,054.14. The Standard & Poor's 500 stocks dipped 0.74 to 618.78. The American Stock Exchange...