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This is not to say that fairness is not a priority of the election, but that tedious rules make for an election that unnecessarily stifles candidates' voices. Instead of a mandatory point-deduction, the council could give a small grace period for easily rectifiable violations such as posting errors. Nor does this preclude the option of penalizing candidates for repeated postering infractions...
...pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure.” “The whole thing boils down to human rights.” Now I ask you, I have 92 bluebooks to read this week, and all I ask, really, is that you keep me awake...
...attending the inaugural. I've been to two of them, and unless you've given the incoming president more than a $100,000 you'll be sitting so far away that you'll see George W.'s lips move before you hear his words. The balls are deeply tedious. You stand around thinking, Gee, that other ball we decided not to go to has got to be a lot more fun than this one. And don't even think about going to more than one: gridlock and the Secret Service prevent that...
...Harvard women's basketball team upset top-ranked Stanford in the first round of the NCAA tournament, an unprecedented event in the history of collegiate basketball. Following the game, the sports department decided to publish an "extra." It was McEvoy who volunteered, at 3 a.m., to take on the tedious task of placing text and photos onto the page-a crucial role in creating what turned out to be one of the most historic sports editions The Crimson has ever published...
...Maestro, an often tedious recounting of every Fed adjustment in short-term interest rates since 1987, we come to appreciate how brilliantly Greenspan manages the Federal Open Market Committee--the body that regularly meets and votes to set interest rates. We also get a revealing taste of the heavy politics involved and how Greenspan quietly and effectively shuffles through the most powerful ranks in Washington. Woodward, assistant managing editor of the Washington Post, makes a case for Greenspan's almost single-handedly engineering the prosperous 1990s. And his assertion that Greenspan sometimes literally gets a pain in the stomach...