Word: toweritis
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...scholarships is a dollar that Harvard doesn't have to--it can be spent on something else. So I got to thinking about how Harvard might spend my gift, and how Harvard spends the extra money it already has. You only have to think of the Memorial Hall Tower (Motto: "Beauty is Its Own Excuse for Being Useless," or "Less Wasteful than a Platinum Sombrero") to know that Harvard's spending habits are a scary picture...
When a Leverett House fire alarm rang last Sunday afternoon, G-tower residents followed what has come to be a familiar routine: They filed out of the building, stood in the cold and expected to be let back inside once officials realized it was a false alarm...
...there were a few famous bears in Renaissance England and that Shakespeare's most famous stage direction--exit, pursued by a bear--refers to the use of one of these famous bears. Public executions were also very popular at the time, as were displays of traitors heads on the Tower of London and along Tower Bridge...
Outside the Ivory Tower...
...Bradley and Gore see it, the primaries offer a clear choice--the Washington bunker, as Bradley calls it, vs. the ivory tower. Bradley says that after two terms in the Clinton Administration, Gore has become one of those politicians who "stay too long and fight too much." But Gore is proud of his bunker. He's pleased to be a gladiator in the arena too--a pro who knows how to get the job done, who didn't leave town but stuck around to fight Newt Gingrich--because "the presidency is not an academic exercise or seminar...