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Maybe it’s the fact that we’re all just jittery, waiting on snow and the end of drudgery and the opportunity to go home in a week. Or maybe the cold is coaxing us into our rooms like turtles into shells. Or perhaps Christmas spirit really does exist. Whatever it is, I’ve noticed that house life at Harvard reaches its peak during the holidays. Girls lay out dresses for house formals, Secret Santas creep through corridors, and the dining halls smell like evergreen forests because of the wreaths we have...
...further concessions are a "very sensitive issue for the union," says Shaiken. The battles over concessions have reopened old wounds in an industry long known for class warfare. Detroit's auto companies are organized around a strict hierarchy, with little of the "all for one, one for all" spirit that is more typical of start-up companies in Silicon Valley. Executives from Ford bluntly told union bargainers during one meeting last year that "shared sacrifice," a concept used during the industry's last crisis in the early 1980s, no longer applied because executives' high salaries were based on Ford...
...Great Sci-Fi Convention in the Sky when I expire," he wrote. "I am vaguely contemplating opting for a cryogenic comeback but in case I don't become a human people-cicle, I, like Isaac Asimov and other thinkers I admire, don't expect to wake up in some spirit realm of an afterlife. I've been a secular humanist since I was 15, long before the term was invented, and nothing since has changed my mind...
...team always has a great attitude towards its matches, whether they think it is a match they are going to win or a match that will be tough,” coach Satinder Bajwa said. “I am very pleased with the team spirit...
...focusing on getting up to speed. The distance runners are not expected to compete, taking a much deserved break after the taxing cross-country season. “For the rest of the team, it’s a really, really early season thing, just to get a competitive spirit going,” Chenoweth said. “It’s all about re-collecting and getting some base work in.” “These two meets in December are still all about getting back in the swing of competing,” Christensen said...