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...said in an e-mail that friends and fans of Averell should expect the unexpected. “What he should do, is not spend any of [the money],” Eirich said, “find the old air mattress he had been sleeping on, and then stuff it with all 500,000 singles. He could hoard it and become a Howard Hughes-esque recluse, though with his hair and beard, I’m not sure we’d really notice the change.” —Staff writer Abe J. Riesman...
...abbreviated reading period and exam days,” he says. But Gomes calls reading period “an absolutely essential piece of our calendar.” He attempts to respect the spirit of Lowell’s original mandate. “I catch up the stuff I haven’t been able to do before, I try to clean out accumulated bits of work, I breathe easier I must confess during reading period,” he says. Reading period has shrunk throughout the twentieth century, however. In 1994, The Crimson reported that the Undergraduate...
...University, the Dutch parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is greeted with posters for two events, at the Kennedy School and at the Center for Government and International Studies, both bearing a lengthy disclaimer that while the organizers welcome “dialogue” and all that good stuff, these events should not be taken as endorsement of Hirsi Ali’s views, nor should she be considered “to be representative for the Dutch public opinion on these issues.” It may be worth reminding the community that this disclaimer exists because Hirsi...
...that it just becomes a period piece or a time capsule. I look at the books that I really enjoyed the most - like Kurt Vonnegut for example, or Joan Didion - you can tell, almost in some cases to the hour, the minute, when they were writing. I never put stuff in gratuitously. I think that's a misconception. Like how many can I squeeze in. Things like the page with the contents of Doritos or the pages of the numbers, to me that's pop art - it's trying to bridge the gap between visual art and words...
...Complete it may be, but the very name "retreat" is a misnomer. This isn't a refuge but a bracing course of exercise combined with a raw food diet, all designed by naturopath Jeans. Stern stuff, yet my fellow captives gaze cow-eyed at the honey-haired Jeans as she maps out the program for the week: yoga at 7 a.m.; a minuscule protein shake at 8:15 along with a vat of celery and cucumber juice that morphs from bland to blah with each mouthful; an 8:30 hike involving prolonged uphill slogs; at 11:15 more juice...