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Harvard hosts Nobel laureates and diplomats on a weekly basis, but when it comes down to it, sometimes what students want most is a long line to stand in with nothing to think about but the people around them (and saving six dollars). Sometimes we’re offered as diversions poetry readings, guest lectures, and forums on health care, when all we really want is a burrito...
...social action or political action...very broadly and diversely construed, whether it’s Phillips Brook House, House government, the UC, Dems, or whatever the case may be. What I think I have been surprised at is that with some very, very major exceptions—like the Stand for Security Campaign, the May Day rallies for immigration my freshman year—groups fail to connect on broadly shared interests and form lasting, coalitional outlooks...
...sent Patrick a letter outlining his opposition to the provision, but had not yet received a reply. “Who wrote the bill’s provision trying to make playing online poker a crime?” Nesson asked in the letter. “Do you stand behind it now?” Woods emphasized that the GPSTS was indifferent to the overall gaming bill and was only concerned with having the online poker ban removed from the legislation. Still, the union members who demonstrated at the event said that the bill should be approved...
...voters in Wisconsin At almost all of the 32 listening sessions I've held this year, a couple people stand up and say, "Look, when are we getting the troops home?" And this is in some of the most conservative counties as well as more liberal counties. So I think people across the board in Wisconsin think this is a very unwise situation, and the notion that somehow the surge has made it all better is absurd to most people in my state. They can see the truth...
...sight - would certainly be a welcome addition. Visitors today arrive at a cramped parking lot set along the A344, that's far too small for so popular an attraction. The only other facilities are a tiny gift shop - selling Stonehenge Rocks! T-shirts - and an unappealing take-out food stand, both housed in ugly, shed-like structures. Maggie Livingstone of Suffolk, who last saw the stones more than 40 years ago when she was a youngster, was en route to Somerset with a friend when she decided to stop and visit them again. She was stunned that the facilities hadn...