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...move to “the City” next year, reduced to periodic contact by email and Facebook, provided the bandwidth in the Great White North holds up. New York doesn’t just loom large in the consciousness of the upwardly mobile; it is the sine qua non of their hopes and dreams.For those of us who aspire to success but not to American citizenship, falling out of step in the march to Midtown is frightening. Overriding the hardwiring of a Harvard education and ignoring the standing orders to bank, consult, and dream of season tickets...
...followed by the first three letters of their starting point and their destination. In seconds, they’ll receive a text detailing the next few shuttles they can catch. For example, a Quad resident looking to get to Mather House would message “sboy qua mat” to find out the time of the next shuttle’s arrival. David J. Malan ’99, the lecturer who currently leads Computer Science 50, originally developed Shuttleboy while an undergraduate at Harvard, decided to expand the service to text messaging. “As times...
...Supreme Court tells us that “[t]he sine qua non of copyright is originality.” That’s why the compilers of a white-pages telephone directory lost their claims against a competitor who copied listings. The Coop neither authored the ISBN numbers on its books nor compiled them in an original selection or arrangement. From all accounts, the professors who create course reading lists are happy for students to have them. (Professors generally welcome anything that helps students to do their course assignments...
...incoherent. Europe is not going to “leave from history” anytime soon, pace Pope Benedict XVI’s warning, nor is it about to become part of dar al-Islam. At best, these apocalyptic visions reflect Burkean conservatism—unwarranted fear of change qua change—and, more often, they are motivated by simple xenophobia...
...will never change the simple truth: Harvard is not as fun as other colleges. But, thankfully, at least for one night of the year, Harvard has a secret weapon: Mather House’s foam party. The renowned Mather Lather is the cornerstone of springtime campus life, the sine qua non of fun at Harvard, the one night of the year where Harvardians can really party outside of a sweaty dorm room or final club...