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Traffic issues are of particular concern for students who live in the Quad and must make the trek down Garden Street to the Yard...
Last week, many of us abandoned our winter breaks early to trek back to school for yet another round of reading period and final exams. We left behind sun, fun, relaxation and, most disturbingly, a chorus of snickering friends from other schools who had already finished exams well before winter break. Most of these lucky students were looking forward to another two weeks of relaxation before returning for their second semester, highlighting the cruelty of the Harvard schedule...
...alone. Like the wagon-train homesteaders who traveled west only to straggle back to civilization when their crops didn't grow in the thin soil, the pioneers behind Inside.com--magazine veterans all--and a number of similar websites have seen the future, paused, reflected and decided to trek back to the past. Along with [Inside], new magazines such as Space Illustrated, Nerve, Travelocity and Expedia Travels have morphed from their cyber origins. What happened...
...ranch she was like, 'Why?'" Bush knows a lot of others have been wondering the same thing. In photo ops the only part of the Crawford ranch the world can see makes it look like one of those dry, generic planets that are always beamed down to on Star Trek. This place in central Texas, just 23 miles southwest of Waco, is Bush's sanctuary. Nearly every weekend of the campaign he came here; he prepared for debates in its two-room cottage, and he has spent the major part of the postelection period out in its dusty acres, away...
...reigning king of TV comedy writers, knows both sides of it. As a writer on Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1993, Smigel, 40, created groundbreaking sketch comedy, including Da Super Fans and the legendary Trekkies sketch in which an agitated William Shatner finally tells a convention of Star Trek fans to "Get a life." He was also the head writer during the schizophrenic first year of Late Night with Conan O'Brien and the infamously abbreviated run of The Dana Carvey Show, which debuted with a sketch of the President breast-feeding puppies. "I don't think...