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...Relief From Painful Gas," Joel Stein's essay on climbing fuel prices [NOTEBOOK, June 4], he wrote, "I have no idea why DVD players are so cheap and house paint costs so much." That's a naive statement, even for Stein. DVD players are cheap because the industry wants you to buy DVDs, which are pricey, at $20 to $30 each. On the other hand, you paint your house only once every five years, so the paint folks have fewer opportunities to gouge you. MICHAEL PODRAZA Chicago...
Harvard’s soul is in the Yard, where ghosts walk. To sleep where your heroes slept—Thoreau, Emerson, Gertrude Stein, Franklin Roosevelt—to follow the paths they walked on, is a rare privilege in a young country. I come from Los Angeles, a city famous for obliterating all traces of its past. In the Yard, the trees are saturated with the spirits of great women and men, as well as the thousands of mere mortals who occupied this ground in an unbroken line that extends far past the founding of the republic itself...
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...absence of a unifying set of characteristics that sets the tone of a House, students take note when their Master not only recognizes everyone in the community by first name, but also participates in House activities such as the intramural program and the Stein Club. Whereas before randomization one’s housemates defined their House community, today that community is defined by the House Masters. As such, the selection of House Masters has become an ever more important process...