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...will dispense no advice of any flavor to my classmates, or to those lucky underclassmen who will inherit our university next fall. I absolutely refuse to recommend the best cheap restaurant in the Square (it’s Charlie’s Kitchen—order their hamburger platter!), or the best karaoke bar in Boston (the Purple Shamrock by Faneuil Hall—look for the fat, pelvic-thrusting thirty-something singing “I Be Strokin”), or the best place to see a movie for less than nine bucks (Kendall Theater in Davis Square?...
Financial planners recommend that parents avoid dipping into their 401(k)s or pension plans to help their children and instead cut back on short-term optional expenses like entertainment and vacations. Advisers also point out one way the tax code can help: if you continue to pay at least 50% of your child's total living expenses, you can still claim that child as a dependent...
...high school, as we have developed methods of writing and cramming that suit the lifestyles we have chosen for ourselves in college. If the staff at the Bureau of Study Counsel observed some procrastinators’ approach to papers and assignments, they would probably, and rightfully so, recommend some serious “study counseling seminars” for them —if not something more serious than that. Unfortunately, I doubt it would do very much good; our study habits stem from our personalities, and our personalities define our approach to learning and our concern with academics from...
While Amazon.com can offer recommendations based on previous purchases, a human being—potentially a friend—can discuss authors with a customer, provide guidance in his book selection or recommend a title from a genre outside of his past purchases—because she knows him well enough to know he’ll like...
...Students Advisory Committee (SAC) and the Academic Affairs Committee, two student subgroups of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, who prepared the report, also recommend an increase in minority artwork around campus and a student center for more meeting space...