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...stands now, Harvard housing leaves quite a bit to be desired. From the barren wasteland of Cabot House to the “quaint?? walkthrough triples of Dunster, many students currently preparing for their housing lotteries are faced with less than ideal options. In recent years, Harvard has done little to combat this problem, even as our peer institutions have embarked on ambitious housing projects such as Princeton’s construction of the $100 million Whitman College and Yale’s extensive renovation of its 12 residential colleges. But hope is on the way. Last week...
...America to no one but the world’s sadistic dictators when in December it pressed Congressional leaders to repeal restrictions on the use of torture by the CIA. And the Attorney General nomination of Alberto Gonzalez—who has called the Geneva conventions “quaint?? and said that our laws against torture don’t apply to all “aliens overseas”—didn’t exactly win us any battles in the war of ideas...
...Harvard reader, this concept might seem ironically funny and peculiarly quaint??some of the world’s brightest and most motivated students would never cut corners like this, right? Well, to Harvard students (and seniors, in particular), this concept is only funny insofar as it’s ostentatiously true and only quaint insofar as even this sophisticated effort to obscure one’s cluelessness is no longer even really necessary...
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