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...most powerful politicians. Xeroxing, filing, opening the 700 to 1,000 pieces of mail we received each day, answering phones and other clerical tasks formed the bulk of my assignments. It was about as thrilling as a PBS documentary on the mating rituals of the three-toed tree sloth...
...through a literary maze. Scenes are sketched out in a phrase or two -- a woody glade, a drafty cave -- and you move from one to the other by typing commands: go west, climb up, enter castle. In your travels, you run into various objects (a giggling robot, a sleeping sloth) as well as other characters. These can be other players, logging on from a remote computer, or cleverly designed computer programs masquerading as humans. You can communicate with anyone you meet by either speaking (typing a message that appears on the other player's screen) or "emoting" (expressing a feeling...
Even if such a session doesn't make a mockery of academic rigor, advance question exams reward sloth and punish initiative. If you've loyally gone to class, you can expect a crescendo of phone calls from distant acquaintances starting in reading period and culminating two days before the exam. After a day or two the pattern becomes recognizable...
Harvard's sloth on the issue, its inability to respond promptly to complaints, demonstrates its lack of concern for a clearly pressing matter. It's time for Harvard to show the care its employees deserve...
...survive. Like Fortune's annual list of the 500 top U.S. industrial corporations, the pecking order of academic excellence is bound to see eventual changes. But too much is at stake, in pride and passion, for the entire empire of academia to fall ignobly into mediocrity, somnolence and sloth...