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...Final Club tie. “Ben doesn’t take a ‘no’ answer when he’s trying to improve student life.”Schwartz says he has dedicated his extracurricular life to attempting to “understand what students wanted” and that he brings the “advocacy experience” necessary to hit the ground running should he take office. He has shied away from addressing neither his Club affiliation nor the Girl Talk debacle. In his rapid-fire manner, he is able to outline...
Acoustic problems aggravate the dismal character of most songs. The onstage orchestra dwarfs the ensemble. As a result, melodies are muffled and lyrics are often hard to understand. Slurred diction weighs down the rhythm even in the musical’s most popular song, “One Night in Bangkok...
...country, has already come under fire for limiting the bandwidth of consumers who supposedly paid for an “unlimited” subscription to its high-speed Internet service. Policymakers should also take extra steps to make the importance of privacy rights clear to those who may not understand the significance of secure hyperlinks or data encryption. Doing so will not only head off the inevitable consumer-protection lawsuits, but will also make it easier for concerned parties to identify abuse of secure data and report it to the appropriate authorities. Any new regulations on this booming sector...
...existing mainly within this safe social space, students studying abroad drastically reduce their ability to understand another culture. Whenever they experience something significant, it is filtered and interpreted by several different like-minded perspectives. Such experiences themselves are limited because, in another university environment, students tend to drift toward a lifestyle similar to the one they practiced at home. The standard class-study-party triad rebuilds itself with a more interesting background. There is little opportunity for interaction with locals and local culture, other than with shopkeepers and teachers—relationships that will always be one-sided...
...grade. A worker cannot adopt this bystander perspective. Workers let down other people when they fail at their work. Cultural differences stop being endearing and start being frustrating when they prevent one’s own success in another society. These clashes are necessary to help one understand another people’s way of life, and they are more likely to happen in the high-stakes workplace than in the ivory tower of study...