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With Reading Period in full swing, now’s your chance to nab that prime studying location in the labyrinth known as Lamont Library. Farnsworth Room, Fifth Floor. Lamont’s own final club replete with leather chairs, dim-lighting, and butlers. As if computers were only for the plebes, the Farnsworth Room is a self-declared “laptop-free zone,” but that doesn’t mean cigars and velvet smoking jackets aren’t allowed (in fact, they’re preferred). Every December, the Farnsworth Room declares an Earl...
...change room configurations, partially in an attempt to decrease the number of walkthrough living situations. The committee’s discussion was inspired by the model Yale has used to renovate its residential colleges, in which students from one college each year relocate to a designated “swing space” while their aging rooms are overhauled. Yale’s renovations have resulted in increased cost efficiency of their housing space, but these gains have not been enough to offset the price tag of the project, according to Harvard Associate Director of Residential Operations Zachary Gingo. Administrators...
Despite the clamps on freedom during the first years of World War II, the pockets of youthful defiance that Savage describes in Germany and occupied France showed a daring contempt for fascist authority, expressing it to the beat of American pop culture. The self-styled Swing Kids of Hamburg and the Zazous of Paris paid a heavy price in beatings and scalpings for growing their hair, wearing Zoot suits, and dirty dancing to banned jazz. "Instead of uniformity, they proclaimed difference; instead of aggression, overt sexuality," writes Savage, with as good a recipe as any for the teenage era that...
...pendulum of history is about to swing again. In Nicolas Sarkozy and Gordon Brown, the two nations are soon to get new leaders who are closer in outlook and personality than any French President and British Prime Minister in living memory. While nobody dreams of reviving the Mollet plan, the two men have an opportunity to put Britain and France back into the same orbit--with potentially significant consequences for the U.S., which for the first time in years is being cheered rather than jeered by a French leader...
...enforced may be the most gun-control advocates can hope for in the current political environment. After the Virginia Tech shootings, even the Democrats that now control Congress didn't seem to have much stomach for a gun-control debate that many think can hurt them in moderate swing states. "Without that initiative," says Castle, who would like to pass legislation closing a loophole that allows weapons to be purchased at gun shows without a background check, "it is almost impossible to get anything done...