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...hour libraries, time-consuming extracurriculars, and easy access to caffeine and study-aids, many college students have forgotten how to go to bed and need reminding. The Boston Globe reported that MIT has started a sleep class to help students unwind. A few miles away, Wellesley has begun to throw pajama parties. Harvard students are not immune to this epidemic of sleep deprivation, and here in Cambridge, the issue is coming to a head. However, a shortage of pajama parties is not the problem—the problem is a shortage of pajamas. The biggest reason that Harvard students find...
...shouldn’t pay these swashbucklers their ransom money. Would that there was a way to dispense with the problem more surgically and without having to spend a dime. But alas, this is a potentially explosive global situation, the sixties are over, and sometimes you just have to throw caution to the wind and open your wallet—wide...
...Roth, John Updike ’54, and Joyce Carol Oates are considered for the prize. But a comment made on Tuesday by a senior member of the Swedish Academy—the body that bestows the Nobel Prize—that American literature is too self-absorbed might throw cold water on the hopes that an American author will bring home the prize. In an interview with the Associated Press, Horace Engdahl called the United States “too isolated, too insular.” “They don’t translate enough and don?...
...destroyed and local restaurants frequented by westerners the target of extremists - Luna Caprese, one of the few places in this Islamic country where you could have a glass of wine with a meal, was bombed in March - Islamabad's sleepy night life has slipped into a veritable coma. Throw in regular power cuts, soaring food inflation and an economy teetering on recession and the citizens of Pakistan's capital are pretty stressed...
...sources. But Israeli planning and air force officials are perturbed that Defense Minister Barak did not carry out any evaluation og the radar's possible impact on Israeli military operations before approving it. For one thing, Israeli defense experts are worried that waves from the X-band radar might throw off the accuracy of a new Gil anti-tank missile also being tested in the Negev. "The Bush Administration is in the mood to give us anything, as long as we don't attack Iran," gripes one senior official. "So why did we take this radar...