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...turns out that most of the first-years piling into Quincy hail from the Union dorms, HUDS could work to improve the quality of food at Annenberg or incentivize the frosh dining hall with special events and culinary delights. Either would make the somewhat longer trek to Annenberg more attractive. But the first-years who are cramming into Quincy don’t only come from Union dorms. Long lines at the Berg during peak hours turn off first-years from Holworthy and Pennypacker alike. An analysis of when first-years, and other inter-house diners for that matter...
...We’re really confident in the trends we see the country going towards,” said Scott. “We think the economy will go on the upswing, and we think the Christian right’s values will take somewhat of a backseat...
...Simmonds opens with the line, "Gemma Bovery has been in the ground three weeks." This somewhat surprising beginning - we knew she was going to die, after all, but as soon as that? - immediately establishes the author's playful post-modernism. "Gemma" completely avoids the pitfalls of being too close to the original text or too blithely ironic or too coyly obtuse. Instead it uses the original novel as a key plot point. The narrator of "Gemma Bovery," a French intellectual-turned-baker in a small Normandy village, becomes convinced that Gemma, an English expatriate, has been cursed to follow...
...every culture, there is a difference between the work levels of men and women, but it doesn’t go the way President Summers suggests: women work harder, longer, and more consistently than men...Among the top-flight scientists, I would estimate that women tend to work somewhat longer and harder than their male counterparts in mid- and late-career stages, and somewhat less long and hard in the earliest stage. If that’s right (and I agree with our president that such claims should be backed by data, not hunches), then a system that tenures people...
With everything else that's going on--careers to be found, debts to be paid, bars to be hopped--love is somewhat secondary in the lives of the twixters. But that doesn't mean they're cynical about it. Au contraire: among our friends from Chicago--Michele, Ellen, Nathan, Corinne, Marcus and Jennie--all six say they are not ready for marriage yet but do want it someday, preferably with kids. Naturally, all that is comfortably situated in the eternally receding future. Thirty is no longer the looming deadline it once was. In fact, five of the Chicago...