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...feeling pretty smug about laying down "Jay-Z" (23 points), but if your opponent responds by playing his wife Beyoncé, that would be worth a mighty 64 points, as he'd benefit from the 50-point bonus (commonly known as a Bingo) that's awarded for using all seven letters. (See pictures of video gamers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Has Scrabble Changed Its Rules? | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...question 2010 Census—reduced to just seven questions for college students—reached mailboxes across the country last month, but just began to arrive in Harvard undergraduates’ mailboxes yesterday. “People should be counted where they live and sleep most of the year,” the form states, and for most Harvard undergraduates, that place is Harvard...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Census Reaches Out to Undergraduate Students | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...cynical Harvard student and going to ask why you should do it? Because it is only seven questions long for students and because it is the primary way governments know how to distribute services and how Washington distributes over $400 billion in federal money. Funding for everything from the roads to the buses to law enforcement is affected by the Census, and if you don’t participate, less money comes to the Harvard area...

Author: By Punit N. Shah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Get Counted | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...some extent, the hilariously disparate body types of Gervais, Merchant, and Pilkington lend themselves to caricature. They are a strange tableau: the lumbering six-foot-seven Merchant, the squat Gervais, the round-headed Pilkington. Most reviews liken Gervais’s avatar to Fred Flintstone, but I believe the real similarity here is to Comedy Central’s mercifully short-lived “Shorties Watchin’ Shorties” (you know a show’s good when its title prescriptively drops the gerund “g”), which animated clips of stand-up comedy...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Ricky Gervais' Brings the Funny | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

While Harvard has not yet disclosed how many students have been waitlisted, Yale waitlisted 932 (taking only seven students off last year) and Princeton waitlisted...

Author: By Thomas J. Hwang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: It’s Senioritis Season | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

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