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...Harvard instituted the position of fun czar—officially called the Campus Life Fellow—as a coordinator for large-scale campus social events, the media and blog response was a flurry of derision. Were Harvard students so uptight that they needed to have fun despotically imposed upon them? Despite the apparent absurdity of having a fun czar, we approve of and acknowledge the necessity of such a position—not to impose fun upon us, but to create unique avenues for social life on campus. The College, however, needs to uphold its end of the unofficial...
...excelled at each one. Jan came here from the Wall Street Journal in 1979 to be a correspondent in the New York bureau. She was soon posted to Mexico City, where she dropped her bags and disappeared into Nicaragua for a year to cover the Sandinistas and the contras. Upon her return, she hopscotched from World-section writer to deputy New York bureau chief to associate editor in the Arts section, where she reported about books, movies, music and her greatest passion: the theater...
...hand, a lot of legislative matters will be settled more easily and quickly,” he said. “But the problem that few of us participate has not been addressed. There’s the idea among professors that most matters that are voted upon have already been decided elsewhere.” One issue still unsettled is whether the Faculty meeting scheduled for next Tuesday is in danger of being cancelled, as the January and March meetings were. James H. Stock, the chairman of the economics department, admitted that the question of whether the vote...
...human rights improvement as a consequence of the Olympic spotlight has not been realized. The United States, European Union, and other national sports officials have unequivocally denied the possibility of a 2008 boycott, however. They and others rightly point out that the greatest burden of Olympic boycotts fall upon the shoulders not of the host country, but of guiltless athletes. For example, the American athletes who were barred from competing in the 1980 Moscow Games as a result of the U.S. boycott were asked, in then-Vice President Walter Mondale’s words...
...shocking, and awe-inspiring stories about the lives of those who carried the newborn hip-hop baby through its development years and into the modern age.But the book’s strength in covering some of the largest hip-hop stars also proves a drawback. By choosing to focus upon such hip-hop icons as Notorious B.I.G., 2Pac, and Jay-Z, Reeves is playing to the audience with the stories of the most familiar names in the musical genre. And if we have made these men into hip-hop moguls that are worth upwards of hundreds of millions of dollars...