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Most people do not go to great lengths to be original on Valentine??s Day. Bouquets of flowers and boxes of chocolate are the standard purchases, though some people may add a personal touch in the form of a corny poem or handmade card. These gifts are time-honored tokens of love; buying such sweet products is an appropriate tradition for Valentine??s Day. But even if you spring for the usual gifts tomorrow, it is still important to think outside the box—and consider the origins of the chocolate inside...
...proper response to this information is not necessarily a boycott. In the current system, exploited workers in foreign countries suffer most when demand for these products falls sharply. Still, you have an excuse tomorrow when your significant other comes looking for the Valentine??s Day gift you forgot to purchase: it was all in the name of conscientious consumption. You can make a date of it. Sit down together with pen and paper and write a few Valentines to the two major cocoa purchasers in the U.S.—M&M/Mars and Hershey?...
There will be a resurgence of love this Valentine??s Day, transforming Harvard’s socially awkward into smooth-talking gigolos. Right...
...effort to energize the anemic dating scene that plagues our school. As a Crimson columnist from the 1980s so eloquently put it, “Loneliness can motivate anyone to do most anything—this is Harvard after all.” In the spirit of St. Valentine??s Day, I dedicate this column to memorializing the probing analyses and valiant efforts throughout the years to nurture love in Harvard’s notoriously a-sexual atmosphere...
However, this was supposed to be a Valentine??s Day brunch. And the love was, alas, sadly lacking. I struggle, for example, to think of anything less aphrodisiacal than borscht. Yet somehow it made an appearance on the menu. Beet soup may have its own Gulag-chic thing going, I guess, but it screams sex appeal about as much as a Russian shot putter in a catsuit...