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...could use a park bench as their address in order to register. A couple flew home from India just to cast their ballots. Obama's Ohio volunteers knocked on a million doors on Monday alone. That night, a Florida official locked himself in the Seminole County election headquarters and slept overnight with the ballots to make sure nothing went wrong with the vote. Early-voting lines in Atlanta were 10 hours long, and still people waited, as though their vote was their most precious and personal possession at a moment when everything else seemed to be losing its value...
...that top spot. We can afford to mess up this weekend. They can’t.HARVARD (5-1, 2-1 Ivy) AT DARTMOUTH (0-6, 0-3 Ivy)It’s Saturday afternoon. You wake up in a strange, unknown place; and judging by the hardwood floor you slept on and the cockroach crawling into your nostril, you come to the vague conclusion that you’re in a River House. Your only memory of Halloween is that the hot gypsy you were dancing with all night went off with that jerk in the cow suit...
...fell 312 points on Friday, and every single component of the Dow Industrials lost money. But Friday was, on balance, a good day, given how far markets around the world had fallen while America slept. That's more than fortuitous. It's the global economy's gears at work...
...Gore ’69 was here Wednesday, presumably to speak about saving the environment or, as South Park fans would claim, to warn Harvard students about the ever-growing threat of the vicious ManBearPig.Unfortunately I missed the speech in the Yard, having slept through it after dozing off while reading “On the Road” for a seminar (this is more of a testament to sleep deprivation than an indictment of Jack Kerouac).But had I been there, I would have asked the former Vice President to offer a solution to another pressing issue: the woeful...
...unblemished achievement—to run roughshod over their own feelings and steer them away from these helping hands. Some end up before the Ad Board, where deans and faculty members (they might as well be Olympians) pass judgment on the wayward lamb who drank too much or slept through an exam, without a peer of his or hers’ in sight. The tenured are the arbiters of what is constant here, and their verdict is final. No dialogue, no discussion truly occurs: This is less communication than excommunication...