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...Berkeley or Illinois State, and that is why we are the ones featured on the cover of the U.S.A. Today Life Section or in the Village Voice. Much of the credit for those achievements, however, must be attributed to the advantages bestowed upon us by our golden ticket sent from Byerly Hall. As the world has seen with these recent scandals, we who have received the benefits of admittance to the Ivy Tower are not necessarily worthy of the special treatment or praise that parents, employers, and media outlets quickly assign to us Cantabrigians. I will not shotgun...
...users are given an estimated price for the event they have planned.“Who would you like to bring to Harvard?” the site asks. “Where would you like them to perform? How much would you need to set ticket prices at to just about break even?” Epstein emphasizes that this feature is “more of a game,” and that a more serious poll will be established once planning for Yardfest ’07 begins in earnest...
...House residents. Requiring students to pay out of pocket in order to join in regular House festivities such as happy hours is an unnecessarily divisive practice. Moreover, it is unreasonable for Houses to charge students for access to money that is theirs to begin with through termbill payments. Naturally, ticket costs for formals and special bashes should not be regarded as House dues; but students should have the option of opting into these events individually and not yoked to all-or-nothing deals...
...genre aficionados who can be relied upon to turn out en masse for opening weekend. Disparaging word of mouth between fans, not hostile reviews, is what sinks fear flicks. By withholding these films from critics, the studios make it difficult for casual filmgoers to decide where to spend their ticket money. Then again, that was the point. Surprisingly, the response of film critics to these outrages has been muted. For a brief while, Ebert and Roper issued un-screened movies a “wagging finger of shame” rather than their usual “thumbs up?...
...video, Lazy Sunday, a rap with Chris Parnell which boasted, gangster-style, of the wimpiest activities imaginable: buying a baker's dozen of cupcakes, seeing The Chronicles of Narnia, using Google maps, yelling out movie-trivia answers at the screen and spending $10 bills: "Roll up in the theater. Ticket buying's what we handle. You can call us Aaron Burrs from the way we're dropping Hamiltons." The video, thanks to the Internet, became an instant classic. Within weeks there were Bakers Dozen T shirts and rap video responses from people in Los Angeles, Britain and Muncie...