Word: tells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With practically every brick, room and building on campus named for a benefactor, it's hard to tell who really gave the big bucks. While Sir Matthew Holworthy had a prominent building named in his honor for a measly 1,000 English pounds in 1678, these days a mere self-titled professor chair takes a $3.5 million donation. Even that though, seems a trifle compared to the chunk of change John L. Loeb '24, LLD `71 (Hon.) and Frances "Peter" Lehman Loeb handed over in a lump sum in 1994: a whopping $70.5 million...
...mantra that I was thinking a lot about when I was working on Glamorama. And it's just: Don't be an asshole. That's really what I tell myself a lot . I was just thinking--don't make a lot of bad choices and don't be an asshole...
...Datamatch is one thing. It's a lame version of MTV's Singled Out, really. You tell the computer matchmaker about yourself. Our friends at Harvard Computer Society (HCS) automatically weed out the clearly incompatible and magically tell you who also thinks that "The Sound and the Fury" is the appropriate book title to describe their life. Never mind the fact that none of these people will ever talk to one another. This stupid cupid leaves a little intrigue in your life--who are you, Carmen Iglesias?--and technology has done all it can to bring some unlikely pairs together...
...might tell you, Jack Kerouac actually wore khakis, and as Nike might tell you, William S. Burroughs actually wore Nikes. Similarly, pictures of those long-haired clench-fisted hippies who took over University Hall in the seventies now ceremoniously decorate the walls of the cafe at the Barnes and Noble Coop...
...just as the corporations encourage us to rebel against old models of soft-drink consumption or blue jeans wearing, they are the ones who encourage us to rebel against the old style of employment. The McKinsey recruiters at the Office of Career Services will be the first ones to tell you just how many of last year's consultants made the B-School cut. Just as much as we might exploit them for their opportunities, resources and salaries, they will undoubtedly return the favor...