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...Some of the material is quite difficult for the reader," Cohen said. "This guide serves as a helper to understanding the concepts...
...often overlooked but essential mark of studenthood and privilege. The cards have been around for at least the last four decades, and were most likely in use during the World War I and II. With the advent of the magnetic stripe and the electronic card card-reader, the humble ID card has been transformed into the powerful and ubiquitous "Swipey Card," allowing Harvard students to access every manner of building, library, photocopier and snack food with a simple swipe. FM recently spoke with Dave Wamback, of Harvard University Identification and Data Services, who explained the complexity of symbol and significance...
...cannot pretend that homophobia does not exist on this campus," said Orr, who is also the Crimson's reader representative. "Action needs to be taken...
...engineers are the greatest creators of wealth in history and why Silicon Valley is the center of the universe (and how Clark came to be the center of the Valley). I tend to dislike most nonfiction, since so many writers approach their work as if they were doing the reader a favor--"Sit down and read this unreadably dull book because it's good for you." Not Lewis, who makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall Street in his best-selling Liar's Poker...
...hardly mentions, belongs to a world in which an intelligent woman's best friends might seem to be Wordsworth and Shakespeare and Keats; her story reads as if one of the Bronte sisters had gone off whaling. Yet for all the literary grandeur, much of the book possesses the reader like an unholy fever. A woman walks through the mist in a wolf-trimmed cloak. A madman cries, "Now we eat our fingernails. Now the spiny stars." Naslund writes with the fearlessness of her protagonist...