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...latest round of Undergraduate Council elections was an amusing spectacle, as budding young politicians attempted to swamp the campus with tacky political advertising. The appearance of campaign managers and strategists as well as numerous scandal accusations made the popularity contest especially farcical. Unfortunately, most of the scandal accusations revolved around campaign indiscretions and not personal issues. While the campus media ignored the juiciest gossip, Dartboard respects no standards of decency. Hence, here is the council election scandal quiz (answers in next week's Dartboard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEST YOUR POLITICAL IQ | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

Your dear lost cousin just crawled out of a swamp in Australia and needs cash. How ya gonna get it there? Western Union, probably. It's been a consistent choice in such situations. So would anyone really invest in a rival money-transfer company called MoneyGram, set to raise a hefty $230 million in an initial public offering of stock next week? Just watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW TO REALLY WIRE CASH | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...year-old daughter. The wild duck (which also remains unseen) becomes the central symbol of the play--for Hedvig, for Hjalmer, and for the Ekdal family as a whole. Into this tranquil little world blunders the well-meaning but clumsy idealist Gregers, whose efforts to clear away the "swamp gases" of deceit and in its place erect a "foundation of truth" only end in destroying it beyond repair...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: Brustein and Rochaix 'Duck' the Pathos In New Production | 12/6/1996 | See Source »

...would be easy to blame the reporter, but for the sheer ignorance behind sending the thing in, I can credit no one but myself. I had aimlessly wandered into a swamp of mutual jealousy between magazines and newspapers for which nothing at the Office of Career Services could have prepared me. I had no idea that many newspaper reporters go out of their way to make magazines look trivial, and magazine copy-editors clip the "Corrections" columns from the papers and send them to their friends for fun. It had never occurred to me that by tossing words into...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Dangers of the Printed Word | 11/22/1996 | See Source »

...this summer of slow. Maybe evoking the vague vitality of these days will get me through my next tour of duty, an indefinite stay here. I'm excited for the time when the Washington World starts to move again. But I'm not too sad that summer in this swamp will linger well past the time Cambridge is crisp and cognizant again...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: Loving the Lethargy of Summer | 7/26/1996 | See Source »

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