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...goal of centralizing the competing fiefdoms of control that render the process of reserving a room for an event completely intractable is, quite simply, a pipe dream. Too many different offices have control over room reservations, and the task of conceiving, lobbying for, and implementing a system is too great for such an initiative to approach short-term plausibility. Between individual Houses’ demands that their residents have first choice of rooms and the arcane regulations common among other Harvard common spaces, a centralized room reservation system is nothing but a black hole for time and effort. It would...
Several previous rulings by the high court “plainly render constitutionally suspect any funding condition that coerces compliance,” according to the brief...
...textbooks. Professors help keep textbook prices high by requiring students to carry the most recent editions and by changing textbooks wholesale when taking over a course. New editions and new textbooks destroy the used textbook market, even though new editions often do little more than change page numbers to render previous editions obsolete. Professors must make their courses compatible with the current and previous editions of textbooks to save students money, even for courses that draw their problem sets from the texts. And new professors must weigh carefully the benefits of switching textbooks...
...course, that’s assuming that Dawson isn’t quite good enough to render any defense impotent...
...proof is in the eye. Michelangelo did not design for electric light. It is the uncleaned two-thirds of the ceiling that needs spotlights to render its mighty forms visible through all the murk. The cleaned areas can be seen clearly by natural daylight, as Michelangelo meant them to be, from the floor 68 feet below. The forms have lost none of their "sculptural" definition, their nobly volumetric quality; instead, they have gained in modulation through the cleaning. Some doubts remain -- about the efficacy, for example, of the Vatican's plans for crowd and atmospheric control: as many...