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...Compare that to posters, which not only require a paid employee to clear away, but more often than not leave ugly traces of tape, shreds of paper, and endless staples piled upon Wigglesworth archway corkboards. What’s more, chalk is environmentally sound. It doesn’t require the reams of old-growth wood consumed by hundreds of redundant posters. Chalk—mere calcium carbonate and pigment—eventually washes away into the wastewater system harmless to the environment, whereas posters liberated by the wind clog drains and choke urban wastewater systems. In New York City...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Chalk It Up | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...expressing the absurd and the magical with the words of pedestian reality: it is difficult to keep the awkwardness of language’s inherent inadequacy from permeating his narration. As Millhauser’s characters are consumed by a desire to break beyond the realm of perception imposed upon them by their environment, so does their creator strive to transcend the limitations of language only to remain shackled by his medium.—Staff Writer Anna I. Polonyi can be reached at apolonyi@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Anna I. Polonyi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Laughter' Dreams Surreally | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...things. He was one of the most well rounded people we have ever met. He excelled in athletics, academics, music, research, and making friends. He was training to run the Boston Marathon while managing an impressive course load, conducting stem cell research, and learning to play the guitar. Based upon such stellar performance and his friendly demeanor, who would have ever guessed that something was terribly wrong...

Author: By M. ELLEN de obaldia and Shiv M. Gaglani | Title: Support For Others | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...sitting down at your computer, you open a blank document and carefully set down your pithy words. You stare at the screen for a while, only slightly distracted by imaginings of deep-fried foods and ice cream. You center a colon on the page but suddenly your eyes alight upon a web ad for a board game: Candyland. You see an article about the latest possibility for a Yard Fest performer: Jimmy Eat World. No more distractions. You type out your title. Despite exhaustion, the standard punctuation easily flows out as you make sure your unique thesis appellation conforms...

Author: By Aliza H. Aufrichtig and Marianne F. Kaletzky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Thesis Eating: Procrastination Alimentation | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...observe or overhear and I don’t know what I’m going to do with it but I feel like I gotta jot it down for future reference, and there will be times when I go back to sketchbooks from years ago and stumble upon some note I made and integrate it into something presently. THC: Your work has been described by some as being “angsty.” Is that a reputation you embrace or reject?AT: I don’t sit down and think, “Let me invent...

Author: By Kerry A. Goodenow, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tomine Gets Serious About Comic Art | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

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