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...dating scene? Let me know when you find one. Wait a minute, what’s the name of that pre-frosh guy you were with earlier? 3. Is Harvard a lot of work? I’m working on my 1,000,000th response paper as we speak. What do you think? And you know what the worst part of all of this is? As hard as I may try to scare the little ones away, somehow they (almost) always make their valiant return come fall: ready to embark on a year of Domna’s swipes...

Author: By Kriti Lodha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hate It: Prefrosh Weekend | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

...stumble about in an unrefined manner. An utter disgrace to this university! These troublemakers remain out until all hours of the night (I have seen them frolicking about past the 9 o’clock hour), when all decent individuals have long since retired for the evening. They speak in vulgarities, spewing phrases like “gosh darn it” and “shucks,” not to mention their fixation on playing table tennis in the wee hours of the morning. Do they not realize that sportsmanship should take place only in daylight...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: No Kids Allowed | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

...issuers simply pay for rating agencies to review the securities with no requirement to produce a rating. Relieving this pressure to produce could foster objectivity and minimize conflicts of interest. In that case, though, the problem of being paid to judge your boss’s daughter, so to speak, still remains. The Cuomo plan does not change the “corporation-paid” model and its attendant conflicts of interest...

Author: By Noah M. Silver | Title: Risky Business | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

Kundermann and Onen are the second and third European sleep scientists to speak out this week against the CIA's use of published academic literature on sleep deprivation. On Monday, James Horne, a British researcher who was also cited by CIA medical experts in recently declassified memos, called the agency's medical reasoning "nonsense." (See pictures from inside Guantánamo Bay's detention facilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scientists Claim CIA Misused Work on Sleep Deprivation | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

...speak in France's name, because that role isn't hers," Socialist legislator Jean-Marie Le Guen said on Monday on French news channel LCI, noting that even if Royal's criticism of Sarkozy's Dakar comments was justified, her penchant for apologies isn't. "A rhetoric based on excusing oneself is out of line, it seems to me, in the same way that the rhetorical foundation of Sarkozy's [insults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ségolène Royal: Sorry for Sarkozy Remarks | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

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