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There is no place on my résumé where I will be able to write that I have been struck speechless by an interesting bend in New Hampshire State Route 109. There is no job interview where I will be able to brag about how I can tell whether a two-cycle engine is running too rich or too lean by the sound of it. And society gained no great benefit from the cement flagpole foundation that I set into some ledge. But I reckon that each of these things is good for the mitigation of at least...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: End Days for Dog Days | 9/10/2007 | See Source »

...with every other first-year you see and follow the mob. A sure-fire way to score a drop of Finlandia! Don’t forget you have a boat load of activities to go to this week. Rest assured you can skip Sex Signals. We’ll tell you right now, if sex signals anything, it’s that you really don’t go to Harvard. You may be accustomed to rating potential mates on a one through 10 scale, but at Harvard we operate in binary: They’re either...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: How to Survive Freshman Week | 9/10/2007 | See Source »

...over the next week would include the removal of Harvard-issue pillows from dormitories campus-wide in accordance with a decree made by the Office of Residential Life and the Office of Physical Resources this spring.“As a captain, I had to tell my workers to take all the pillows out, and the good ones we’ll recycle, the bad ones we’ll trash,” Sundquist’s fellow Dorm Crew Captain Marcelo Cerullo ’10 said. The reason for the sacking of students’ fluffy head...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Bid Farewell to Former Room Staples | 9/10/2007 | See Source »

...camera time behind a box-hedge where entertainment reporter Jill Rappaport had set up some lights. There were very few details left unattended to, from the perfectly cooked pink lamb chop main course to the black-edged white linen dinner napkins that matched the runway theme. And little details tell the tale. Because beyond all of his branding and focus, it's nailing the little things that has gotten Ralph Lauren, 40 years after he started, to the top of the heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saturday in the Park with Ralph Lauren | 9/9/2007 | See Source »

...light at the end of the tunnel. That was a very consistent quote: "It's changing, it's getting better, [another] six months, another 100,000 troops." We heard that again and again and I think any Vietnam veteran or person of my age from that era will tell you that it's very similar. False hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver Stone Goes Back to War | 9/7/2007 | See Source »

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