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...CRAVE HUMAN CONTACT" from Jan. 2 and a lengthier post on New Year’s Day ("as one chapter of loneliness closes, another vast empty year begins.... sad self-pitying existence") have both risen to the top of boredatlamont’s "week’s best" list. Other confessions—such as "I’m so depressed…I’m useless" from Jan 3rd—are dishearteningly frequent...
...Cambridge’s chief academic and administrative officer, Richard has introduced a one-billion pound ($1.9 billion) capital campaign in anticipation of the university’s 800th anniversary in 2009. The sum is a vast one for a university in England, where leading institutions are far poorer than their American peers. While Harvard has $29.2 billion in its coffers, Cambridge has just $8 billion, two-thirds of which are controlled by the university’s 31 individual colleges...
...watched McGwire hit a baseball harder than I've ever seen anyone hit one. And since more than 100 players tested positive for steroids in 2003 (when they were told they'd be tested), we know that if he did juice, he was the best steroided hitter in a vast field of steroided hitters. So even if he wouldn't have beaten Maris or Ruth for home runs in a single season, he was the best home run hitter of his era. And for one great year he not only made baseball relevant, but tied America to its history...
...events that were happening at the time. It was a few days after the Monica Lewinsky story broke. I fully expected Mrs. Clinton to cancel. She was a scorned woman whose husband had just been exposed for cheating. [The exchange] went extraordinarily well and resulted in the often quoted "vast right-wing conspiracy" interview. But it required as deft a touch as I ever have...
...that require attendance during reading period. Moving reading period before break would provide a more equal winter vacation for all students in the College, ensuring that no one’s winter break is cut short because of the courses in which they’re enrolled. Although the vast majority of American colleges and universities have already recognized the advantages of pre-vacation final exams and a humane winter break, some have argued that we should not abandon our unique calendar in favor of some more conventional scheme. On the contrary, the uniqueness of our calendar is part...