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Most people do not go to great lengths to be original on Valentine’s Day. Bouquets of flowers and boxes of chocolate are the standard purchases, though some people may add a personal touch in the form of a corny poem or handmade card. These gifts are time-honored tokens of love; buying such sweet products is an appropriate tradition for Valentine’s Day. But even if you spring for the usual gifts tomorrow, it is still important to think outside the box—and consider the origins of the chocolate inside...
...Orlean’s adventures have left her with a cache of anecdotes that go beyond the standard cocktail party fare. Have you ever chatted with a female bullfighter in Spain? She has. Split your time between old-school rappers and dog show aficionados? Check. Written an article for an outdoors magazine that got made into the summer blockbuster Blue Crush? Waded through alligator-ridden swampwater in search of an elusive “ghost orchid?” And did Meryl Streep play you in Spike Jonze’s Adaptation? Orlean can boast all this and more...
...different matter entirely. FM put this conventional notion to the test in the style of MTV’s Room Raiders. We challenged Wesley H. Kauble ’06 to choose a dream date out of a pool of eager sweethearts based solely on their interpretations of standard-issue university housing. Kauble, a lightweight rower and Undergraduate Council dynamo, purchased a car dealership with his winnings on NBC’s Weakest Link in his junior year of high school. But can a wide array of interests and experiences help him correctly decipher his true love based...
...from students themselves. In this instance, well-intentioned individuals such as those of the Coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV) have argued time and time again against instituting the judicial safeguards that make state courts relatively fair and the Ad Board unfair. CASV has argued, among other things, against a standard of “independent corroborating evidence” to prompt an Ad Board investigation—something former Dean Harry R. Lewis nonetheless instituted—and for a near-absolute victim confidentiality. Massachusetts, as well as a score of other states, have confidentiality statutes where the accuser...
With his struck-by-lightning hair, glazed eyes and garish Hawaiian shirt, NICK NOLTE, nabbed for a DUI offense, set the standard by which all future mug shots shall be measured...