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...Clothing Fund, that helps students from warm climates who also need financial aid to buy the things they need to survive what the Financial Aid office calls "our blustery New England winters." The letter to applicants recommends various items of clothing, including waterproof boots, a hat, earmuffs and a scarf. But for those of us who don't have a pressing financial need, the College offers precious little to help through our first winter of black ice, wind chill factors and rivers that freeze...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, JONATHAN H. ESENSTEN | Title: I Have a Toque, and I Know How to Use It | 10/31/2000 | See Source »

...Clothing Fund, that helps students from warm climates who also need financial aid to buy the things they need to survive what the Financial Aid office calls "our blustery New England winters." The letter to applicants recommends various items of clothing, including waterproof boots, a hat, earmuffs and a scarf. But for those of us who don't have a pressing financial need, the College offers precious little to help through our first winter of black ice, wind chill factors and rivers that freeze...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esenstein, | Title: I Have a Toque and I Know How to Use It | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...propose that the College institute a cold-weather orientation program for those of us from snow-challenged parts of the world. First, we would learn how to tell the difference between gloves and mittens. Then, we'd be able to try our hand at scarf wrapping. The final exam would be a trip across the Yard when the first nor'easter hits...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esenstein, | Title: I Have a Toque and I Know How to Use It | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...wrote the source code for the music file-sharing program called Napster. He can't remember specific months, weeks or days. He was just hunched over his Dell notebook, writing the software and crashing on his uncle's sofa or the floor. Then he'd shake off fatigue, scarf a bowl of cereal and sit back down. He worked feverishly because he was sure someone else had the same idea, that any day now some software company or media conglomerate would be unveiling a version of the same application, and then Fanning's big idea wouldn't be his anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Napster | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...temperature in the gymnasium housing the debate will be a carefully regulated 65 degrees. Not so cold as to require Bush to wear his Yale scarf (thereby infuriating the partisan Boston audience) but cool enough to waylay Gore's sweat glands' unfortunate tendency to overreact under pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sorry, No Phone Book for Debater Dubya | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

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