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Tough economic times have hurt Harvard's typically favorable public image, leading to??a 20 percent decline in media representations of Harvard over the past nine months, according to??The Global Language Monitor, a site that recently brought you the "Top Politically (in)Correct Words and Phrases of the Past Year" (number 1 was Swine Flu, FYI). We get that cutbacks don't exactly make Harvard look good, but how did they translate that into a number like 20 percent? Regardless, the site ranked Harvard as the university with the third best media image this...
...issue is also a personal crisis. I’m a liberal in every sense of the word—political and editorial. I think the Constitution is a living document. I believe in the flexibility and inevitable evolution of language. I even think it’s acceptable to??gasp—split my infinitives. Why, then, do I not embrace the new variant “healthcare?...
...artist to dance floor notoriety. Recognized by the few familiar with the artist as “Dat Kid from Cleveland,” Kid Cudi has been amassing a small following over the past few years, releasing mixtapes and appearing on—as well as contributing songwriting to??Kanye West’s “808s and Heartbreak.” With a talent for balancing the serious and the laughable, Kid Cudi sings and raps about not only the universal experience of heartbreak and regret, but also about the joys of getting really stoned...
...mediocre voice, “Season of Ash” provides some striking scientific explanations for the socio-political disasters of the past and takes a faithfully journalistic approach to exposing capitalism gone corrupt. Volpi asks some ambitious questions, but he does not answer them or even presume to??one wonders why he curtailed his analysis and commentary at this cursory level. While this hefty book disappoints in the context of its wandering, subpar storytelling, Volpi’s prolific ideas and occasional bent for powerful language should not preclude him from meeting more success with his next...
...left-over stuff someone no longer wanted, and hating for a whiteboard to go to waste, I took the whiteboard up to my room. It occurred to me, however, someone might have been temporarily storing their stuff there for later use. So I wanted to??check: is this anyone's stuff? Was this for giving away, or for storage...