Word: spendings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...their allowing the deficit to balloon to $10 trillion. In the end, all Gingrich can offer as an answer is Contract with America 2.0--which consists mostly of tax cuts. It's the old trickle-down economics with a fresh paint job. I'd much rather have tax-and-spend Democrats than borrow-and-spend Republicans. David Ingram, ST. LOUIS...
...Five weeks of unstructured break may indeed seem excessive; many lament the lack of guidance offered in terms of how to spend this time. This criticism, however, illustrates the severe level to which Harvard students seem to have internalized the need for an unwaveringly structured and regimented college experience. I personally find it liberating to have the ability to determine on my own how to spend the break, without the pressure of official Harvard suggestions or guidance looming over my decision-making process. If organized alternatives had been offered, the unhealthful Harvard climate of always keeping up with our stressed...
...After all, there is no such thing as mere “guidance” offered by the College—if the school had offered suggestions as to how to spend the five weeks of break, they would implicitly have become mandatory directives, thanks to Harvard’s competitive nature. If Harvard had “recommended” meaningful travel, non-traditional electives, or internships, a student who might otherwise have cried “Sweet reprieve!” at the thought of a mental-health vacation would have felt obliged to comply with such recommendations...
...dorms, they should be scrapped in favor of more conventional horizontal hallways, which provide better opportunities for socializing among neighbors. It seems counterintuitive that the Planning Committee is investing in better social spaces within the Houses while neglecting the deleterious social effects of the space within which students spend a majority of their time—their rooms and their immediate vicinity...
...have a particular hankering to see a basketball game, but simply to say thanks for the “random acts of Shaqness.”—Aditi Banga ’09 is a Senior in Lowell House and former Crimson Design Chair. She plans to spend next year performing random acts of Shaqness...