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When I was picking a name for myself during the spring of freshman year, it took me about two seconds to settle on that one. It was different in its own way—we Crimson columnists tend to make puns out of our names, stuff like “Ted Lobster” or “Grateful Ted”—and incorporated my pride about my Southern roots...
...already intimidating admissions statistics look even grimmer for regular applicants, with as little as six percent of the regular pool admitted. As a result, applicants with little knowledge of the admissions process and even less guidance with which to navigate it—applicants who also tend to come from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds—face an unnecessarily high burden when applying that has nothing to do with their academic ability...
...rights, Judd Apatow should be a terrible filmmaker. His movies largely feature his friends and family, which is usually an invitation to lazy inside-joking. His subjects tend to be none-too-bright slackers and losers, which always carries with it the possibility of tiresome indulgence. OK, they're kinda dumb, but, really, isn't there something adorable in their stupidity? The fact is, however, Apatow, represents, for the moment at least, the best in American movie comedy. The 40 Year-Old Virgin somehow made rather touching and funny sense out of that eponymous condition and its protagonist's recovery...
...could broadcast things that we liked as opposed to those that would make it easier to sell advertising,” Menninger recalls. “I can’t believe that the station hasn’t changed to reflect a wider listening audience, but then students tend to be at the leading edge of good ideas. I’m sure I must have left before this honeymoon is over...
...successful in barring illegal immigrants, what will happen to the economy? -Charles Horton, BEIJINGYou can get a lot of interesting data on each side of this. What does seem to happen is that when there's a reduction in low-wage workers, companies tend to develop technologies to compensate. Tomato farmers genetically engineered tougher skins so tomatoes could be picked by machine, for example. And citrus growers are starting to do the same things...