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...people crossing the border. Most were seeking jobs, he says, though some were armed and looking to kill Israelis. In his pack—alongside his gas mask, bullets, grenades, helmet and cigarettes—Heilman stashed his “Surrealism” and Math 21a textbook...
Harvard opened up the scoring midway through the first period on a textbook play from sophomore defenseman Noah Welch to junior forward Tyler Kolarik. Sophomore center Tom Cavanagh skated into the Engineer end and passed the puck back to Welch at the blue line. Welch found Kolarik sitting on RPI goalie Nathan Marsters’ doorstep, and fired a cross-ice pass down to him. Kolarik redirected the puck into the net before Marsters had time to slide across the crease...
...ideas through some other medium is a powerful and releasing tool that can complement and enhance our academic studies. Studying the poignant black and white photographs of Sebastian Salgado or the innovative architecture of Frank Gehry translates the wonders and terrors of the modern world better than any textbook or problem set ever could. We see how expression can be far more powerful in the visual medium. We need more opportunities to express ourselves in this...
...Textbook kleptomaniacs will steal an item and immediately throw it away. It is the act, not the object, that satisfies their impulse. "Kleptomaniacs might have started stealing on a dare as kids," says Dr. Jon Grant, a director of the Impulse Control Disorder clinic at the University of Minnesota Medical School, "but it becomes so pleasurable that the addiction takes over their actions...
...considering what values we hold. At Harvard today it seems that “academics uber alles” holds sway. Which is shameful as there are so many skills in life of at least commensurate importance to the ability to glean every useful piece of information from a textbook...