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My middle school lubricated the inevitable unease of Valentine’s Day by allowing students to purchase carnations through the student council and have them delivered to unsuspecting kids in homeroom on February 14. Apparently this was supposed to open our eyes to the wide world of gift giving...
The secret to success in cities like Chengdu is going local. French hypermarketer Carrefour, which opened its fifth outlet in Chengdu in January, overhauled its prepared-food department to cook up the chili-laden specialties favored by natives, including marinated rabbit heads and roasted duck jaws. Samsung reopened its operation...
The Gulf Coast that I saw was one where the wealthy slowly rebuild, while the poor (who overwhelmingly are racial minorities) watch helplessly from their makeshift FEMA trailers—their own solution to the housing crisis that still exists. This is a land where wealthy speculators purchase coastal land...
Before facing a dizzying array of problem sets, response papers, and midterm examinations, Harvard undergraduates face shopping week woes: which courses to shop, which Core requirements to fulfill, how to balance extracurricular commitments with heavy course loads. And then, of course, there is book shopping. Harvard professors, it seems, have...
At most other colleges, a student with cash to burn is likely to purchase a new Playstation 3. We splurge on incessantly blinking, cinderblock-sized phones. The former provides escapist fun; the latter ostensibly enhances productivity. The fact that such a gadget is fast becoming the trendiest luxury item in...