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This cutting-edge study ritual, however, might be fading fast. “My dad told me not to do it anymore because it would make me stand out too much and look like a freak,” Lawrence says. Soren J. Siebach ’08, Lawrence’s neighbor, has a different take: “Interesting people tend to have interesting study habits,” he says...
...country?usually a developing nation that had recently shaken off colonial rule?Naipaul's modus operandi was to discover quickly that his hosts were relinquishing the gifts of civilization?courts of law, hygiene, tar roads?bequeathed to them by their European overlords and crawling back into tribal ritual, sham spirituality and chaos. He did this for more than 30 years, and when the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks took place and overnight it became important to know something about countries like Iran and Pakistan, intellectuals in America and Britain were grateful that Naipaul had already filled a whole bookshelf with essays...
Most Harvard students have experienced the bittersweet ritual of morning postering: being handed popsicle sticks with tape wrapped around them, vibrantly colored posters and instructions to tape said posters upon practically every possible edifice within a one-mile radius of the Square...
...study card beat upon his or her brow? From the long, hard trek to Sever Hall to claim one’s card, one’s yoke, to the agony of filling out laboriously the myriad bubbles with obscure course numbers, to the patriarchal ritual of seeking out and gaining the approval of one’s academic adviser-cum-overlord, the study card is an institution without which Harvard students will be better...
Sitting in the grass in front of Lamont, backpack beside her, Heller prepares for a familiar ritual. For the last three years, she alternated visits to her then-fiance and now-husband Mark Alfano, a senior at Princeton. She’s got a seven-hour journey from the Square to her husband’s front door ahead of her, but she’s used...