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Even at UCSD, where the student events committee has a budget of $450,000 for all of its multi-act concerts, they strike a balance between headliners and more low-key acts. In addition to its three annual music festivals, the college also hosts several smaller shows for audiences of 200 to 500 students. And just because it’s a cheaper band to book doesn’t mean it won’t make...
...hallway, I would try to be charming; I would fail each time. But she was a person of tremendous forgiveness—I’m still grateful to her for this—and she would smile and maybe laugh and she would say something that would strike me as brilliant. I would cling to this encounter throughout the day like a sparrow to a bright-colored bit of string, and at night I would add it to my modest little nest of unfounded hope. The whole thing ran its course, and like most youthful delusions it faded away...
...back to finish my thesis for three months,” said David W. Rizk ’05, who is an English and American Literature and Language concentrator. Because these “super seniors” remain at Harvard after most of their class graduates, they must strike a balance between remaining loyal to their original 2005 classmates and assimilating into the Class of 2006. “It definitely feels like I don’t belong just because hearing all my friends talk about their jobs, it’s odd to be the only...
...haven’t priced a harp in at least a couple lifetimes, so I didn’t know.”He isn’t even close, and opponent Janella easily outbids him for her Showcase. “Coach doesn’t strike me as one to be very good with numbers,” Walsh admits now, “so I’m actually not surprised.”When Janella wins, Donato turns, his hand extended in congratulations to the kindly old lady...
...that time of year again, when the most prolific shoppers--and woeful savers--on earth, Americans, run amuck in stores as if they were Kris Kringle with his elves on strike. It matters little that shoppers are already neck-deep in debt or that even those doing well have cause for stress, given that sky-high home-heating bills are just a month away, inflation and interest rates are rising and the housing market is slowing--all of which is eating into most budgets or soon will...