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...dining halls. Suffice it to say that we have long ago forsaken the grey smock and matching bonnet of the 17th century, but just what kind of people are we to be so well-attired these days? This past weekend, I pushed myself to come down from Mather Tower, the concrete structure incongruously named after the notable Puritan, and took to the streets in search of an answer to that question. First, I meet with friends at a sushi restaurant. We are seated in a back room where large parties are sequestered from the intimate parties in the restaurant?...
...buggies, so that word gets out that anyone who comes this way will be arrested. With current sensing equipment, fewer than half of the 11,000 entries detected so far this year were apprehended. More eyes would mean more arrests and at a reasonable cost, says Johnson. A camera tower costs about $600,000 and can see three miles in every direction...
...strangely, this entire study-abroad phenomenon has left Harvard more or less unscathed. Specifically, only a hundred of Harvard’s roughly 6,000 undergraduates are escaping the ivory tower this semester, despite lucrative policies implemented by former President Summers intended to encourage international study. For example, Harvard students only have to pay the relatively small thousand-dollar student services fee to the Office of International Programs should they study abroad...
...that killed thousands are especially relevant for Joyce and Marshall. She was supposed to be winging her way to the Bay Area on United Airlines flight 93—which crashed in Pennsylvania—for a business trip, and he worked on the 86th floor of the South Tower. Each of them takes private delight in their soon-to-be-ex-spouse’s supposed demise: “It was nearly like the appeasement of hunger. It was a giddiness, an elation...
...Lula's first task will be to come down from his ivory tower and engage voters again, and in the process, halt Alckmin's momentum. He has already started to, calling only the second press conference of his presidency to try and connect with voters in the folksy way only he can. If that doesn't work, you can bet that the race for the presidency will really get dirty - and a lot more interesting...