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...your house is compared with your neighbor's, as opposed to its absolute size. According to these studies, even if everyone's income rose at a uniform rate - a rising tide lifting all boats - the growth would not make anyone significantly happier, at least not in the long term, because the relative position of people would not have changed. (See pictures of Americans in their homes...
...control others’ interpretations of her choices. Brashly assuming traditional feminine tropes is no more productive than brashly assuming masculine ones: the taboo of the hairy-legged, power-suit-wearing, man-hating feminist from which “girlie” feminists so hope to distance themselves. The term “girlie” is itself problematic: It evokes “girlhood”—a juvenile, enervated version of femininity, in contrast to the maturity and power of “womanhood...
Thesis writer? J-term was supposed to provide a time for in-depth research and writing on campus, right? Well, with that guarantee snatched away faster than weekday scrambled eggs, we have recently discovered a possible loophole for you. Read on, future tax evader...
That’s right, maybe H1N1 is your free ticket into J-term housing. Just imagine finishing your thesis in an air-locked chamber with no distractions but your own vomiting...
After six months away from the ivory tower calm of the economics department’s Littauer headquarters, economics professor Jeremy C. Stein—who was in the nation’s capital serving out a term as senior adviser to the treasury secretary—is back at Harvard and ready to reflect on the experience...