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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FREUD coined a now-popular term, "anal-retentiveness," that means more and more to me while I'm at Harvard. I'm not a psychologist, so I have no idea if I use the phrase correctly, but lately I notice a preponderance of such behavior...
Ignorant of the clinical definition of anal-retentive behavior, I use my own term--"anality." It also uses less syllables. Anality shows up often here at Harvard, and it's making me tense...
Perhaps the biggest barrier faced by students who want to design their own major is ignorance. Many members of the Harvard community, students and faculty alike, are not aware of the interdisciplinary option. At the beginning of last term, when one special concentrator looked for a departmental meeting within her house, she says she was met with a joke about being "special...
...help bring long-term relief to hunger-stricken regions of Ethiopia, Harvard students can give up their dinner in the dining hall in a fast planned for later this month...
...President who campaigned on a promise that he would wipe out the deficit by the end of his first term is now finishing his second term with that goal nowhere in sight. Why has he failed? The question prompted TIME' s Washington bureau to undertake an ambitious project: drafting its own long- term proposal for a balanced budget that would be feasible as well as fair...