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...among other conveniences), but its lapse is a blessing in disguise. It may help us realize that many things we take as necessities are actually luxuries. For now, I’m going to relax about the lack of wireless in my suite, and resort to some of those quaint traditions of yesteryear. But if it’s not fixed by October, I’m transferring to the Quad. Emma M. Lind ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House...
...took on Bolivia and won 20,000 sq. mi. of wilderness borderland?at a cost of one Paraguayan life for each square mile. Thus the prize won in 1954 by Stroessner, a veteran of the Chaco War, was a sleepy backwater, 600 miles by river from the sea, cobblestone-quaint but short on manpower and desperately poor ... Stroessner got off to a dictator's ironfisted start, organizing a tough secret police, suppressing all opposition, packing the prisons. Close to 300,000 Paraguayans now live in exile. At Stroessner's Colorado party headquarters in the Asunci?n capital, functionaries keep IBM listings...
...about foreigners?” he would yell, waving his cane, pocketwatch flailing about. “At America’s premier institution of higher learning? Balderdash!” Lodge would then lurch off, muttering under his breath.Luckily, Harvard’s isolationism has dissipated since those quaint pre-World War II days–as of a couple years ago, they even started encouraging us to study abroad! As part of your newly internationalized curriculum, you get to take a core class in the exciting field of “Foreign Cultures,” a more...
...other commercial success was attributed to the "artiste" who sketched out his or her dreams and somehow, with just a hemline or a dangly tchotchke, was able to seize the zeitgeist and magically send millions of cash registers ringing. Every six months, newspapers and fashion journals would feature quaint headlines announcing the dictates of those creative types?PARIS SAYS PANTS! Nobody paid much attention to the anxious number crunchers in the back offices studiously poring over sales estimates and marketing budgets...
...What you will curse when you realize the one book you really need is at Countway Library. Lowell House: 1. Holding a set of Russian bells hostage, just because they can. 2. Lacking in views and space, Lowell House residents pay a severe price for that quaint “Harvard” look...